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
René Fouquet@nixCraft I never saw much value in coding challenges during interviews. The only useful way of assessing how someone actually performs on the job is to let them do the job. In Germany there is a period of time during which firing a new hire is much easier than later to make this evaluation possible. In the US with its hire and fire culture I imagine it would be even easier. So there is no point in coding challenges.
UkeleleEric@renef @nixCraft interestingly, I was in a job for a while that was above my level really, but I grew into it. The previous programmer was a genius, but the company had to get rid of him eventually, due to the liquid lunches he took - you could never rely on his afternoon work, but his morning work was brilliant. It took two minutes of looking at any subroutine or section to know which it was.