Comment by paffdragon
2 days ago
We have also seen this about a year ago when hiring. But only a couple of them made it to the live interview and then it was evident. Most of them were quickly filtered out based on the coding submissions. We are soon about to hire again, with the uptick in LLM usage and newer more up to date models, I'm not looking forward too much having to deal with all of this.
Maybe it’s time for you to update your perspective. You strike me as the old guy who curses all the young’ens who use the fancy electric power tools and never learn how to use a manual saw … and you don’t like it much.
I don't know why you make up such stories for yourself. It's completely pointless and has zero value.
Let me share you something, maybe it helps to update your perspective.
We reject people not because they help themselves with AI, everyone on the team uses AI in some form. Candidates are mostly rejected, because they don't understand what they write and can't explain what they just dumped into the editor from their AI assistant. We don't need colleagues who don't know what they ship and can't reason about code and won't be able to maintain it and troubleshoot issues. I can get the same level from an AI assistant without hiring. It's not old vs. young, we have plenty of young people on the team, it's about our time and efforts spent on people trying to fake their skills with AI help and then eventually fail and we wasted our time. This is the annoying part, the waste, because AI makes it easier to fake the process longer for people without the required skills.