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Ask HN: How do you deal with obvious AI assistant usage in interviews

2•stackdestroyer•4h ago
I've been interviewing for technical candidates in my current role, and I'm seeing what I believe is a relatively high rate of AI assistants/overlays during interviews. The role I'm hiring for is a Sr. Release Engineer, and even (what appear to be) qualified candidates are showing up obviously reading from prompts. I say obviously for two reasons:

1. I can SEE them reading. Their eyes go back and forth, and it's clear they are reading.

2. They NEVER stop talking. Normally getting answers out of engineers requires a legitimate question with a sound purpose. I'm getting _immediate_ answers with well thought out, multi-point rationale.

So...I'm rejecting all of those candidates the instant I detect it. How are everyone else doing this?

Comments

stackdestroyer•4h ago
To be clear, I have started asking absurd questions, and seeing what the reaction is. Those using AI assistants never balk at these.
bigyabai•4h ago
Are you telling them upfront that AI usage is forbidden? If not it's fair game.
edwardsrobbie•1h ago
If I think this happening I'll ask them to close their eyes.
rboyd•1h ago
they'll just click the "close eyes" filter button soon enough
moomoo11•31m ago
In person interviews

If that’s too expensive then maybe you should just have more AI agent adoption so you don’t need to hire third rate developers.

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