Before the pandemic the team I was in used to conduct interviews in person. We'd give people a sheet of paper with a bunch of questions that they had to answer. No leetcode type stuff. Just basics.
With that we had one person cheat with a phone.
Doing remote interviews from then on we saw at least one person who was very probably cheating. They would get an answer, pause, then give a response, but then when we asked follow up questions they would seem not to understand their previous answer. They also had 'Audio Visual Issues' at the start of the interview. We figured they had someone else listening in on the interview and giving them answers. No AI needed.
One of the worrying things was that they did it fairly badly, had they done it well we probably could not have detected it.
Perhaps the ideal interview now would be one in person with a computer that wasn't connected to the internet where you told a candidate exactly what tools and references they would have and then gave them a coding problem.
For these jobs they were pretty heavily cloud related and also showed another probable problem, people are getting other people to get their certifications for them. If you have an AWS Associate Level cert you should be able to explain what S3 is without blinking.
I had two interviews one after another. The first interviewer asked me a basic question, and then kept drilling "ok but how does it work in more detail?". This was extremely exhausting but really refreshed my knowledge.
Then the second interviewer asked me exactly the same question. I was able to give him perfect textbook answer with lots of details because of the previous interview. I also have a tendency not to look into the camera/someone's eyes when talking, I only do this when I'm listening. The interviewer accused me of cheating and ended the interview there and then.
If you didn’t tell the second one that you just had this exact question, then that’s understandable
I’ve been on both sides of this. Occasionally mistakes on the recruiting side means two people get scheduled to do the same facet.
I’ve also been asked literally the same question multiple times. If you don’t let them know, then obviously you are going to come across like you are suspiciously over prepared.
Perhaps the questions got leaked on Glassdoor or something. Either way the interviewer is justified in rejecting you if something seems off and they can’t get a good read of your actual thought process
Agreed. Plus, an interviewer wants to see how you work on a team. If you just had someone else help you understand something, you should say, "That's a great question, and Sally and I just went really in-depth with it in my last interview."
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This exactly.
Before the pandemic the team I was in used to conduct interviews in person. We'd give people a sheet of paper with a bunch of questions that they had to answer. No leetcode type stuff. Just basics.
With that we had one person cheat with a phone.
Doing remote interviews from then on we saw at least one person who was very probably cheating. They would get an answer, pause, then give a response, but then when we asked follow up questions they would seem not to understand their previous answer. They also had 'Audio Visual Issues' at the start of the interview. We figured they had someone else listening in on the interview and giving them answers. No AI needed.
One of the worrying things was that they did it fairly badly, had they done it well we probably could not have detected it.
Perhaps the ideal interview now would be one in person with a computer that wasn't connected to the internet where you told a candidate exactly what tools and references they would have and then gave them a coding problem.
For these jobs they were pretty heavily cloud related and also showed another probable problem, people are getting other people to get their certifications for them. If you have an AWS Associate Level cert you should be able to explain what S3 is without blinking.
Fun story:
I had two interviews one after another. The first interviewer asked me a basic question, and then kept drilling "ok but how does it work in more detail?". This was extremely exhausting but really refreshed my knowledge.
Then the second interviewer asked me exactly the same question. I was able to give him perfect textbook answer with lots of details because of the previous interview. I also have a tendency not to look into the camera/someone's eyes when talking, I only do this when I'm listening. The interviewer accused me of cheating and ended the interview there and then.
If you didn’t tell the second one that you just had this exact question, then that’s understandable
I’ve been on both sides of this. Occasionally mistakes on the recruiting side means two people get scheduled to do the same facet.
I’ve also been asked literally the same question multiple times. If you don’t let them know, then obviously you are going to come across like you are suspiciously over prepared.
Perhaps the questions got leaked on Glassdoor or something. Either way the interviewer is justified in rejecting you if something seems off and they can’t get a good read of your actual thought process
Agreed. Plus, an interviewer wants to see how you work on a team. If you just had someone else help you understand something, you should say, "That's a great question, and Sally and I just went really in-depth with it in my last interview."