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If AI can solve all of your interview questions trivially, maybe you should figure out how to use AI to do the job itself.

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The questions were just a proxy for the knowledge you needed. If you could answer the questions you must have learned enough to be able to do the work. We invented a way to answer the test questions without being able to do the work.

To continue the point. If the knowledge you need is easily obtained from an LLM then knowledge isn’t really necessary for the job. Stop selecting for what the candidate knows and start selecting for something more relevant to the job.

An accurate test would just be handing them a real piece of work to complete. Which would take ages and people would absolutely hate it. The interview questions are significantly faster, but easy to cheat on in online interviews.

The better option is to just ask the questions in person to prevent cheating.

This isn’t a new problem either. There is a reason certifications and universities don’t allow cheating in tests either. Because being able to copy paste an answer doesn’t demonstrate that you learned anything.

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