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Ask HN: What are good questions to ask in a remote round in post GPT era?

4 points ashu1461 | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.282s | source

Almost all candidates nowadays seem to have some form of external help or LLM-based assistance setup during remote interviews.

This makes it increasingly difficult to fairly assess a candidate's actual skills and independent thinking ability.

How are interview processes changing at your company — or at places where you're interviewing — to adapt to this new reality?

Are there any new patterns, tools, or formats you're using to ensure a fair evaluation?

1. recursivecaveat ◴[04 Jul 25 03:54 UTC] No.44461011[source]▶
Not a complete answer by any means, but it may be worthwhile plugging your questions into popular LLMs. Recently I interviewed a very suspiciously behaving candidate. The algorithm they approached the problem with, which I had not seen anyone use in years of asking that question, was also the exact same that ChatGPT suggested for the problem.

One suggestion I saw recently in a thread was asking deliberately incorrect questions, such as how to implement a particular solution using an irrelevant technology. LLMs are so 'eager to please' they seem to just BS some nonsense in response. Not sure how I feel about that approach however.