I interviewed a guy a couple of months ago that had perfect responses to every tech question I threw at him. He even did really well on the white boarding session. The only thing was he would wait for 10-20 seconds to respond to everything. Not long enough to get called out but just long enough to notice. He aced everything. He’s a horrible employee, a senior that doesn’t seem to know anything. I almost suggested he start using his interview LLM when regular folks were asking him questions.

I do in-person whiteboard interviews.

So many words just to say interview process is broken. It always been that way , anyone really think that someone that prepared and solve few leet code question can plan complete distributed system?

The reality is that no correlation was found between interview success and success at work especially for SW engineers, AI toola didn't change it not remote interviews.

> Then there’s the pacing. A human pauses to think. AI-assisted candidates pause to receive a perfect answer. You can mostly feel the rhythm shift. Their eyes drift slightly. You think we don’t see that, don’t you?

I really hope most interviewers have at least the barebones skills to be able to discern AI-using interviewees, like what the author claims to have. I'm trying to get hired at the junior level, and the thought of competing with people who have no qualms with effectively cheating in real time is pretty scary. I'm human, I will inevitably not know something or make minor missteps - someone with an AI or a quick-witted friend by their side can spit out perfect, fully-rounded, flawless, HR-optimized stories and replies with a satisfying conclusion for the behavioral questions, and basically always-correct, optimal solutions for the technical questions.