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This seems like a flawed premise. It's an interview, there's nothing to be automated. It's a test, a task that the company wants you to do as a candidate, not a
by jstx1 4y ago
This seems like a flawed premise. It's an interview, there's nothing to be automated. It's a test, a task that the company wants you to do as a candidate, not a task that they need automated. They don't even need the task done, they aren't using the code you write to solve real world problems, they're using it to assess your suitability for the job.
To put it another way - they can already automate solving their leetcode problems by looking up the solution in their database, no need for AI. But that's not the point at all.
- autotune 4y ago>They aren't using the code you write to solve real world problems, they're using it to assess your suitability for the job. If they aren't evaluating how the code you write fits into the context of a real world problem, how can they possibly use it to asses your suitability for the job? Using fake code problems to evaluate candidates is the flawed premise here.
- jstx1 4y agoYou're changing the topic - whether data structures and algorithms problems are suitable for interviews is separate question. My claim is that if you're using those types of interview questions, an AI model being able to solve them well makes no difference to your interview process because the interview isn't something that you want to automate. Like I said, they were always able to automate solving those problems by doing a database lookup.
- autotune 4y agoI am literally responding directly to what you wrote in the way that you wrote it. My counter claim to your initial point is that candidates will be able to use said AI in competitive programming interviews to fool the interviewer by the interviewee, thereby making competitive programming pointless as an interview tool. It automates it for the interviewee, not the interviewer.
- jstx1 4y agoI thought that you mean companies automating stuff. But it still doesn't make sense - interviewees have been able to cheat in online assessments forever. Does a better way to cheat in a small subset of all the leetcode interivews really make enough of a difference to make all of those interviews obsolete?
- autotune 4y ago> It's a test, a task that the company wants you to do as a candidate, not a task that they need automated You are contradicting your earlier statements. But yes, a tool that can beat leetcode interviews successfully and reliably is a game changer for candidates who want to make it through these pointless LC interviews as a whole.
- bcrosby95 4y agoYou can do this, but you're optimizing for the wrong thing. And given enough time this will be seen as just as backwards as, today, asking someone to list the methods on the String class from memory. Because there was a time we did this, and with tools like Google Search it became dumb, but it took some dinosaurs a really long time to let go of their old ways. Hell, some of them are probably still around.