Comment by neilv
1 day ago
> I am currently interviewing candidates and so far about 50% of them used live GenAI to answer questions. I think so far it has been trivial to notice who was doing that. It takes very little to figure out if people know what they are talking about in a natural language conversation.
Before LLMs, I would often answer a hard/important question by automatically looking away from the person, and my eyes scanning some edge/object in the background, while I visually and verbally think about the question... Then I'd sometimes come back in a moment with almost a bulleted list of points and related concerns, and making spatial hand gestures relating concepts.
Today, I wonder whether that looks for all the world like reading off some kind of gen-AI text and figures. :)
It does, or at least it triggers suspicions. Have had more than one conversation with fellow interviewers debating if someone was using an AI tool during the session or just wired the way you describe.
I wouldn't worry too much about that. The "behavioral" patterns are just one of the tells. Ultimately the content of the conversation is the main factor, but suspicious content + those patterns when talking means high suspicion. I am really sorry if someone catches stray bullets from the vast amount of people trying to "cheat" the interview, though.