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Originally Posted by Otter74

I don't really understand the thinking behind doing this. You cheat your way into the door, and then...you do what with your lack of knowledge and understanding?

In 2008, when I got laid off from Chrysler in the crash, I interviewed with Volkswagen. Interviews were in-person and included what was basically a test of your understanding of relatively basic things like the principles of IC engines. A few years before that one included a phone interview with a plant SQE in Mexico to check my Spanish. The former could certainly be cheated very easily using AI in a remote interview, but if you make it you're still left not knowing what you're doing. My current job of many years is not engineering but sort of engineering-adjacent; it does not require an engineering degree now, but did when I got it. One of my colleagues in the same position has some practical experience but lacks understanding of basic engineering principles. It doesn't seem to hurt him but makes me wince when it shows up.

I've been happy/lucky to only have to deal with 2 total deadbeats like that. Both were very similar to the story that I told above. I know the one got "laid off" (fired for being incompetent), but I can't remember what happened to the other one. I think he may have seen the writing on the wall, realized that he wasn't up for it and everyone knew it, and found another job.