amazon execs r so mad LOLLL maybe stop asking dumb interview questions and people wouldn't build shit like thishttps://t.co/RMwouy3enr pic.twitter.com/sBdWTx2aFJ
— Roy (@im_roy_lee) February 28, 2025
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Kid creates tool to cheat on tech interviews, tech companies less than enthusiastic (and they tattle on him)
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I got a new job about 6 months ago and ads for these cowtools kept coming up. 700 bucks gets you access to an invisible ChatGPT interface that runs in the background and parses what the interviewer asks. It supposedly gives you follow up questions, a design sketch, code, etc. without you needing to type.
Companies will have to adapt. Moving back to in person interviews makes the most sense imo.
As an interviewer I had one obvious case like this (an "experienced" industry hire for a senior role). Their resume was like every red flag in the book though, they should never have got passed a resume screen.
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How's that gonna work? Are they gonna fly 100000 sexy Indian dudes from india for 8 interview rounds with the HR, manager, lead programmer, another middle manager, manager again, CEO, janitor, office roomba, etc?
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That's how it worked pre-pandemic
Hopefully the hiring binge is over though. Not good for the industry.
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The Indians getting interviewed for US jobs are generally in the US already.
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What kind of red flags?
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Most glaring one was that she was an "software architect" at a definitely real startup that only employed her and seemed mostly to publish 200 word ChatGPT generated blog posts about basic CS concepts.
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I am going to complain about how that person got an interview every time I get turned down for the rest of my life
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Dude it was so bad. This interview was for a role that probably would have paid like 600k+ if she'd actually been as experienced as claimed.
The whole thing was actually way funnier than I'm making it sound too, but I didn't want to post about it and link her resume and "startup" here because it would have been too easy to tie back to me and I don't want to self-dox more than I already do. She also had a 4 month stint as a senior manager at AWS and I'm like 100% positive she ChatGPT'd her way through the interview and ended up getting fired immediately. I'd love to talk to one of her reports lmao.
Huge waste of our time though. I complained and she's banned from re-applying.
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