@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club
Post #314338
2025-08-19 06:48 UTC
Replies (32)
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@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club 2025-08-19 07:32
Jesus Christ this is way more answers than I expected, what the hell
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@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 2025-08-19 07:08
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I’ve experienced this but with google search or similar. There were strange pauses and the interviewee’s eyes were darting left-right as a sign of reading fast. And when told it’s ok not to know they continued anyway. Nothing new really.
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@cyclops_@fosstodon.org 2025-08-19 07:10
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I think this is common but we do technically use case with engineers and I'm sure they have used it to answer the question. Skillset and answers in person didn't match. I'm not sure what to think about it because engineers are expected to use AI to speed up their development, so do these people do exactly what is expected of them, or are they faking the assessment?
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@pverhoye@mastodon-belgium.be 2025-08-19 07:12
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club yep! Some interviews had silences starting with ‘let me think on that’. And hands out of sight. In one case we could even reproduce the exact answer of someone using chatgpt (and the answer was incorrect of course)
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@froge@social.glitched.systems 2025-08-19 07:12
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I haven't been an interviewer in this position, but I think in hindsight I lost a very good job opportunity in part because when I started screen sharing I chose to share only the relevant window with my code inside it, not my entire desktop... and the interviewers seemed concerned and wanted me to share my full desktop (which I eventually did without thinking much of it) I only ever share a single window because I just care about my privacy and don't want distractions from other desktop notifications and stuff bothering people who watch my screen, especially during meetings, but in retrospect I think they just assumed I was using an LLM to answer questions even though I totally fucking bombed the interview naturally anyway lol
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@axel@social.glitched.systems 2025-08-19 07:18
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I've had to do this twice. Usually asking them questions about their personal tech opinions and having them defend those opinions outs them. :blobfoxlul:
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@graemewinter@mas.to 2025-08-19 07:18
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I remember interviewing someone over zoom where the start of the answer would be 30s of waffle then they would pick up and start sounding coherent - but this could be googling and reading hits rather than _necessarily_ feeding things into an electronic parrot to get answers It was however painfully obvious that they were not answering from what they knew
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2025-08-19 07:21
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club It's only a slightly modernised variant of them googling the answers to the questions during the interview.
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@Viss@mastodon.social 2025-08-19 07:22
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club i had one once where dude could be heard frantically googling. same idea, but before llms. i guarantee its happening
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@tonyp@mastodon.social 2025-08-19 07:31
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club yuuup, it was painful. Went off the rails during the coding exercise.
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@davedave@aus.social 2025-08-19 07:33
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club yep. They even had a helper doing the typing. Their inability to actually shorten their answers and poor engagement was what lost them the gig and the tell.
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@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-08-19 07:34
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club mate of mine was interviewing someone who'd inadvertently shared the wrong screen. He watched him type into it right at the start and said "you know I can see that right? I think we're done here"
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@ldvsoft@fosstodon.org 2025-08-19 07:37
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club hey, I spent a couple of years as an assistant tutor on pretty good CS/SE program, ended just before current craze. I have several time experienced when student on an exam tries to give an answer but doesn't have full picture in their head, and that's alright, not everybody is expected to ace, but it actually sounds a bit like bad LLM output: confident bullshit. Sometimes you can just poke around and they will realise their mistakes, but sometimes sadly not. Speaking of job interviews
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@danielittlewood@fosstodon.org 2025-08-19 08:04
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Can't be sure, but I think so.
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@kirakira@furry.engineer 2025-08-19 08:06
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club all these anecdotes and then some of us who do things in earnest never get interviews :neofox_woozy_256:
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@Riduidel@framapiaf.org 2025-08-19 08:29
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Yeah I conducted one visio interview where the candidate was surely sending my voice to a speech-to-text, then to some LLM. What makes me thinking that ? The fact that it was clearly looking at two different windows on his screen, one with my video stream, and the other where the oracle text was appearing.
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@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space 2025-08-19 08:44
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Not yet, but what a good way to bomb and interview. Generic answers to non-technical questions has always been a red flag for me. My technical interviews are trying to find the boundaries of knowledge, and quickly writing code but fumbling over the explanation of choices would be a huge red flag,.
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@umbrella@aus.social 2025-08-19 09:13
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Is the LLM willing to criticise Kim Jong Un? Could be a good test.
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@jotaro@dopamine.social 2025-08-19 09:43
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club heard about this. not experienced it myself though.
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@criffer@mastodon.social 2025-08-19 09:45
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Even before the advent of Text Extrusion Machines, I have had people read the Google summary result back to me. It will only get worse as these things get faster and less detectable.
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@Landsil@infosec.exchange 2025-08-19 09:56
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club No hard proof and it's uncommon. But the traits are there - unnatural pauses, eyes look like they're reading, struggle to answer personal questions etc
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@tzz@infosec.exchange 2025-08-19 10:33
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club yes. But nothing compares to the brilliance of one interview where the person had the sound on and accidentally played a “welcome to Python programming” video tutorial.
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@swapgs@infosec.exchange 2025-08-19 11:14
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club "Huuum let me think about thaaaat" for 30 seconds and then proceeds to give a shallow encyclopedic definition of the keywords in the question while reading from another screen. To be fair, I’m not against Googling or LLMs _if_ they disclose it beforehand, but it shouldn’t be necessary on question about the achievements picked from their resume :)
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@casablanca@aus.social 2025-08-19 11:56
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club twice in the past month, one of whom accidentally shared their screen in the process…
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@dgregory@types.pl 2025-08-19 12:55
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I haven't seen direct use of an LLM, but I did have a very strange interview experience recently where a candidate forgot to close the screenshare after a pair-programming exercise and left their ChatGPT-generated cheatsheet on screen throughout the interview. I didn't have the heart to tell them they had done that but I tried to discourage them from using that approach again
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@elseweather@mastodon.social 2025-08-19 13:50
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Yeah, basically all of the interviews I've done since late 2024. Some of them are good at it and some of them are.. not
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@phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com 2025-08-19 14:05
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club adding to the ratio just to say that i hope to experience this one day just for the novelty of it
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@lwriemen@social.librem.one 2025-08-19 15:09
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Maybe having to use LLMs to get past HR keyword screening would lead one to assume they need a LLM interpreter in the initial phone interview as well. ;-) It's all bullshit anyway. #AllBozosOnThisBus #DumbAllOver
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@oprimo@mastodon.social 2025-08-19 16:30
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Yeah. Same as others reported: candidate is usually very nervous, stutters for about 10 seconds after each question, then is magically coherent. Once I screenshared some simple Java code for a candidate, a toy train schedule calculator, and asked for a review. They told me to check the usage of java.time functions. The code did not use java.time...
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@teleute@is.nota.live 2025-08-19 19:28
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Interviewed someone a few years ago who had someone feeding them answers via audio and then stepping in to do the coding exercise for them (interview was in webex and when they shared their screen we could see a zoom bar up top saying "X person (not the interviewee) is controlling your screen"). So given the boldness of that I can only imagine how bad it's gotten with LLMs. Mind you it was pretty clear from ourconversation that they were just parroting and didn't really understand what they were saying, but...
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@renudist@sunny.garden 2025-08-20 06:47
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Yes, add me to the list. Candidates that pause and appear to read before answering like a text book. I'd assumed they were using the LLM to help with translation; either way, they're not appropriate for my (development) team.
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@aklys@scicomm.xyz 2025-08-20 07:30
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I don't understand how people think they could pull this off. I know you can have a pause to think about something. But most interviews I've done is on camera when in a video call. So it would be super easy to spot them doing it. Also i find the 90% of the responses I get from LLMs pretty much useless much of the time. I feel like the answers would be not overly beneficial to the interviewee lol