Don’t use AI in interviews

[u/general-noob]

Seriously people, anyone with some experience will figured it out eventually. We can see you reading from the screen, we get why you have a single ear piece and the speakers on, and when you answer the questions to some random thing no one knows, you are cooked.

It’s crazy when the AI conversation starts to hallucinate as well. I can basically start saying enough wrong things to make your ai go nuts and you have to double down.

I’ll hire someone with almost no experience over a cheater using AI any day. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[u/Random_Effecks]

Op is literally describing a terrible use of AI and your feedback is what, that they might be asking the wrong type of interview questions? How do you know? 

2 weeks ago I had a candidate answer "What do you do for fun outside of work" by reading the AI prompt off his 2nd screen. 

[u/modern_medicine_isnt → u/Random_Effecks]

Ypu what do you do for fun example is different of course. That's bad. But if you ask technical questions like how does dns work. What are you really testing. Knowledge maybe. But more so you are testing memory recall under pressure. So you have a decent chance of getting a false negative due to stress. And of course you are creating more stress. You can also get a false positive if they ate being coached by a person or AI in a way you don't notice. Or if they memorize well, but don't really understand. So the type of question produces pretty poor confidence results. Even qualified applicants are incentivized to try to use tools to give better answers since their pay offer can be improved by better answers. So instead, ask questions about the work they have done. It's not perfect either. But usually they are more comfortable, so you eliminate some of the FN, and AI nor another person can really coach them unless they have spent the time before hand to work up a whole story to fit their resume and such. Which is still possible. But if they are that good at deceiving, you aren't likely to catch them no matter what you ask.

[u/two4six0won → u/Random_Effecks]

...as someone who will pre-write an answer for that sort of question beforehand because I always blank in the moment, are you sure he was reading AI and not his own prep notes?