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I once concluded an interview with a candidate who was rather conspicuously engaged in clandestine typing, subsequently rectifying their previously incorrect an
by jozvolskyef 3y ago
I once concluded an interview with a candidate who was rather conspicuously engaged in clandestine typing, subsequently rectifying their previously incorrect answers. I suspected they were resorting to Google, given this was before ChatGPT came out. Much to my surprise, they ended up landing the job.
- metadat 3y agoThey got hired even though you said "no"? That sounds extremely unusual, typically employers of SDE types are cautious this way.
- jozvolskyef 3y agoI don't know what exactly happened there. The two of us conducting the interview advised against this candidate in our report. About a month later the candidate was introduced as a new hire on a different team and I never saw them again in a company of <100 people.
- PUSH_AX 3y agoArguably if someone can google the “answers” to your interview questions in 20 seconds they aren’t good questions to ask anyway.
- notahacker 3y agoAnd if someone's ability to answer questions using search tools in real time is sufficient to impress a series of interviewers, they're probably quite resourceful at finding solutions to problems they've been given a few hours to solve