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
r-hold@nixCraft i don't know what kind of jobs you had the privilege of working in but that does not match my experience.
Most jobs are rather dull, even in IT. Just complex enough that they cannot be fully automated. And a lot of jobs are even bullshit jobs (Graeber).
And even if your job isn't dumb most probably your manager is and you need to watch out for not being smarter than him/her/it.
Am i too cynical? I really don't think so.