Had interviews last year insisting the use of llms and others tolerating it. Our head wants to introduce codex in ohr workflows now so pretending you're not using them or joining a team that swears off them better have a very good reason I suppose?
Yeah exactly. I'm using codex, btw. So I feel weird to pretend I'm not using LLMs and I write all code just by using my brain. But on the other side, there's no much point on explaining one-self on how LLMs are used to do a task... like, it would look very ridiculous to share my screen and ask 90% of the solution to the LLM while the interviewer just looks at LLM output... that's like analyzing how one uses Google to search for stuff (and I swear that 100% of the engineers out there use Google to search for stuff related to coding, but I haven't heard of any tech interview that includes a session to asses your Google skills, right?)
So, if we are not pretending, and companies want people who can use LLMs, well, I think it's rather clear: No more live coding interviews, no more live system design interviews. You can just send take-home assignments because people WILL use LLMs to solve them. You just analyze the best solution offline and take the best.
If any the only "live" interview needed is: are-you-a-real-person-and-not-an-asshole?
Had interviews last year insisting the use of llms and others tolerating it. Our head wants to introduce codex in ohr workflows now so pretending you're not using them or joining a team that swears off them better have a very good reason I suppose?
Yeah exactly. I'm using codex, btw. So I feel weird to pretend I'm not using LLMs and I write all code just by using my brain. But on the other side, there's no much point on explaining one-self on how LLMs are used to do a task... like, it would look very ridiculous to share my screen and ask 90% of the solution to the LLM while the interviewer just looks at LLM output... that's like analyzing how one uses Google to search for stuff (and I swear that 100% of the engineers out there use Google to search for stuff related to coding, but I haven't heard of any tech interview that includes a session to asses your Google skills, right?)
So, if we are not pretending, and companies want people who can use LLMs, well, I think it's rather clear: No more live coding interviews, no more live system design interviews. You can just send take-home assignments because people WILL use LLMs to solve them. You just analyze the best solution offline and take the best.
If any the only "live" interview needed is: are-you-a-real-person-and-not-an-asshole?
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