Interview Coder is an invisible AI for technical interviews

Posted by swisspol 4/5/2025

Interview Coder is an invisible AI for technical interviews(www.interviewcoder.co)

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jellyfishbeaver 4/5/2025|

Seems like a whole new market is opening for people looking to game the hiring process. In my short few years being involved in interviewing, I've seen 1) obvious AI use off screen/a second person feeding answers 2) Person A showing up for the interview process and Person B showing up after being hired 3) candidates covering their lips moving with a large headset mic and someone else speaking for them.

Wild

bilsbie 4/5/2025||

I wish hiring was: pull a ticket out of your system and work through it with the interviewee.

They could get a sense of what type of work they’d be doing and the competence of the organization and you’d get to see how they perform in the real world.

esafak 4/5/2025|

It would take a very senior coder to be able to make sense of the code base and start fixing a bug in the duration of an interview.

Plus the code base will involve technologies they are not familiar with; rarely does everyone know every technology needed beforehand.

bilsbie 4/5/2025||

To clarify I’d intend the interviewer to do most of work that requires inside knowledge.

The interviewee could suggest the specific implementations within that.

Eg. We need to hook into our fubu system. Here’s our library for that. How would you code that?

darrenkopp 4/6/2025||

I interview people regularly. These are easy to detect… not in a direct way but i can tell when you are being assisted by AI. 3 so far this month out of 12, for those who were going to ask how frequently.

hoerzu 4/5/2025||

If you don't want install a binary I found way cheaper option for an interview assistant: https://interview.sh

xyst 4/5/2025||

The fact that AMZN still relies on outdated methodology, such as leetcode problems, to assess _senior_ candidates shows the company is out of touch.

the_real_cher 4/5/2025||

this is great because it's just going to bring back in office interviews and hopefully any tests are in person as well

raverbashing 4/5/2025|

Great for whom? Travel agents?

the_real_cher 4/5/2025||

people who value quality code bases and quality candidates

esafak 4/5/2025||

And since the cost of hiring goes up, they'll just be more stringent about whom they invite in the first place. I hope you've worked at a few FAANGs before applying!

ram4jesus 4/5/2025||

This is the funniest thing I have seen all week. Burn the process to the ground. Hahaha.

serverlessmania 4/5/2025||

Getting Amazon and k8s certifications will mean nothing with tools like this

sarchertech 4/5/2025|

Can we just stop doing performative technical interviews already? The only other industry that does interviews the way we do them for senior people is the performing arts and performing is right in the name.

The engineers I’ve worked with who’ve caused the most damage by far, have have been technical tornadoes who did fine in interviews.

I’ve never seen any damage caused by someone who slipped through the cracks without being able to code at all (and I’ve worked with people like that).

I think we’d be much better off if we just fired people who outright lie about their ability to code and spent more time digging into previous employment history, talking though projects, and talking to old coworkers.

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