Interviews are prediction machine that answer the question “will the candidate be successful (technical, design, soft skills, team integration…) in the role ove

Interviews are prediction machine that answer the question “will the candidate be successful (technical, design, soft skills, team integration…) in the role over time. The prediction is made with an extremely small sample, a few hours at most compared to months or year of training and employment. Considering that, of course the interview won’t be a slice of real work - there just isn’t enough time. We try to compress the software development experience of months to an hour - so it gets lossy. That’s why, in the interview, we gloss over details that we won’t in real life. Which is where ChatGPT’s answer really excel. Sure, it won’t really be able to design and code the system. But it can mimic knowing how to do it for the purpose of the test quite well.