AI has completely broken interviewing as well. The asks I am getting in the few interviews I can achieve are schizophrenic.

They have pretty uniformly wanted me to demonstrate using AI but then freak out and interrogate me for every prompt and then want me to demonstrate I can do the task by hand. And that’s only after getting through the AI run filtering that gives a different score everytime your unchanged resume is run through the model.

It’s dark times for employment currently unless you’ve got a rare nepotism path.

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ofjcihen 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t know if those companies are doing it for the right reasons but I’ve implemented a policy of showing me that you can do the job manually as well.

The reason being that if you can’t then you probably can’t tell when the AI is wrong.

My company is strictly Cybersecurity/IR though so that may vary with other specialties.

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lovich 4 days ago | parent [-]

If the interview was specifically about doing it manually that’s one thing.

I called them schizophrenic because the companies I’ve interviewed with seem like they desperately want to be on the AI bandwagon and want you to demonstrate the ability to effectively use AI, but they don’t currently know how to evaluate that and panic and default back to their old heuristics.

It is very difficult in 45-50 minutes to complete a task when the criteria change partway through.

	▲	ofjcihen 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh yeah no that’s just a terrible interview process. I think schizophrenic is a great way to describe that.

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para_parolu 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was always better to find job via recommendations. Both for companies and candidates. Old leetcode style interviews were no better at identifying good candidates for given job.

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bheadmaster 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> It’s dark times for employment currently unless you’ve got a rare nepotism path.

In the civilized society, we call that "recommendation".