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I heard from a friend of a friend the other day that was interviewing some sort of engineer that they were interviewing someone that was probably using AI to cheat on their interview. The interviewee would ask them to restate the question for each question, and then since it was a virtual video (zoom, I assume) interview, they could see the person's eyes going back and forth across the screen as they read the answer.

Then I got this email today.



Years ago, a group that I was a member of hired a guy that interviewed really well. Then when he arrived, he seemed OK. It was a complex environment so the guy asking tons of questions wasn't a surprise. He took lots of notes as various folks on the team showed him how to do things. THe problem was that no matter how many times someone showed him how to do a particular task (with him taking copious notes) the next time that task came up, he was at square 1, like he'd never seen that same task before. I eventually stopped helping him after demonstrating, explaining, and instructing on a particular task multiple times, I was just done. He was eventually fired. The guys that interviewed him swore up and down that the interview went well, but are thinking, since it was done over the phone that he must have had someone else do the interview. He was a nightmare, and we all expected him to come back and shoot up the place after he got canned. It was funny, because within a week or two of him getting canned, we had mandatory "active shooter training" which we all were fairly sure was a coincidence, but could have been intentional and it wouldn't have been a bad call.