nixCraft 🐧A Linux sysadmin tech interview conducted via Google Meet. The job interviewer now says: Take off your headphones, put on speaker, close your eyes, and tell me what an inode is and when you need it.
We have reached this point because candidates are cheating during IT and software engineering interviews using LLMs. This is a new, low tech solution, but I wonder if candidates will find yet another novel way to cheat. The hell we are building makes me wonder if there is a future left in IT. Jobs are supposed to challenge your intellectual limits when you solve problems by building unique solutions, you gain rewards beyond just a salary. Now, it is a race to the bottom
Abram Kedge🏴🇨🇦@nixCraft I remember the feeling when I suddenly realised "Holy carp! These guys are paying me to solve logic puzzles!" I couldn't imagine a better job.
Of course the last twenty years they have been trying to turn tech into "easily replaceable monkey turns the handle, yet another nearly identical code unit comes out".