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I watched someone do this during an interview. They were literally copy and pasting back and forth the LLM. In front of the interviewers! (myself and another c
by alexpotato 1y ago
I watched someone do this during an interview.
They were literally copy and pasting back and forth the LLM. In front of the interviewers! (myself and another co-worker)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985254
- pbronez 1y agoHow far did they get? Did they solve the problem?
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- sethops1 1y agoDoes it matter? The point of the interview is not to produce an output.
- shomp 1y agoIf you don't solve the problem, do you get the job?
- WalterBright 1y agoDepends on why you didn't solve it.
- jondwillis 1y agoNever once has this happened
- lsaferite 1y agoI've hired someone that didn't solve a specific technical problem. If they are able to walk through what they are doing and it shows the capability to do the expected tasks, why would you exclude them for failing to 'solve' some specific task? We are generally hiring for overall capabilities, not the ability to solve one specific problem. Generally my methodology for working through these kinds of things during hiring now days focuses more on the code review side of things. I started doing that 5+ years ago at this point. That's actually fortuitous given the fact that reviewing code in the age of AI Coding Assistants has become so much more important. Anyway, a sample size of 1 here refutes the assertion that someone's never been hired even when failing to solve a technical interview problem. FWIW, they turned out to be an absolute beast of a developer when they joined the team.
- retrac 1y agoI volunteer at a non-profit employment agency. I don't work with the clients directly. But I have observed that ChatGPT is very popular. Over the last year it has become ubiquitous. Like they use it for every email. And every resume is written with it. The counsellors have an internal portfolio of prompts they find effective. Consider an early 20s grad looking to start their career. Time to polish the resume. It starts with using ChatGPT collaboratively with their career counsellor, and they continue to use it the entire time.
- figers 1y agoI had someone do this in my C# / .NET Core / SQL coding test interview as well, I didn't just end it right there as I wanted to see if they could solve the coding test in the time frame allowed. They did not, I now state you can search anything online but can't copy and paste from an LLM so as not to waste my time.
- hirvi74 1y agoWhat did your test involve? That's my occupational stack, and I am always curious how interviews are conducted these days. I haven't applied for a job in over 9 years, if that tells you anything.
- userbinator 1y agoYou should've asked "are you the one who wants this job, or are you implying we should just hire ChatGPT instead?"