From a hiring perspective, it’s becoming incredibly difficult to weed out AI bullshit. For every one qualified candidate I get, I’ve had to drop five or more in a fucking tech screen
God I’m so afraid to lose job now because I could never survive an interview these days.
I used to shine for things like takehome interview code problems and shit like that, where I had a chance to pause and think a bit and look up definitions and shit.
But those kinds of toy programs are actually the things that AI is actually good at, so now I can only differentiate myself by coding live in front of interviewers and memorizing trivia, both of which I’m terrible at, and don’t reflect actual work.
What’s worse is that we ask a bunch of OOP questions at my company, but I actually hate OOP. I try to work in some FP questions, but those are really hard to ask without using similarly academic language (e.g. describe closure/thunk/partial application and what differentiates them). A lot of people don’t know the terminology while knowing the application, because we only cover the terminology in one class in the middle of the curriculum (for OOP; FP was an elective for me), and it’s not useful in actual work.
I just want to know if you know what you’re doing, and unfortunately, a live coding session usually does the best non at that. Yeah, we’re probably missing out on some great devs that just can’t perform in an interview, but we’re also not having to fire bad devs as much.
Between my workday and my family, when am I going to have time to make a portfolio of projects that are complex enough that an AI couldn’t have generated them?
God I’m so afraid to lose job now because I could never survive an interview these days.
I used to shine for things like takehome interview code problems and shit like that, where I had a chance to pause and think a bit and look up definitions and shit.
But those kinds of toy programs are actually the things that AI is actually good at, so now I can only differentiate myself by coding live in front of interviewers and memorizing trivia, both of which I’m terrible at, and don’t reflect actual work.
Yeah, it sucks.
What’s worse is that we ask a bunch of OOP questions at my company, but I actually hate OOP. I try to work in some FP questions, but those are really hard to ask without using similarly academic language (e.g. describe closure/thunk/partial application and what differentiates them). A lot of people don’t know the terminology while knowing the application, because we only cover the terminology in one class in the middle of the curriculum (for OOP; FP was an elective for me), and it’s not useful in actual work.
I just want to know if you know what you’re doing, and unfortunately, a live coding session usually does the best non at that. Yeah, we’re probably missing out on some great devs that just can’t perform in an interview, but we’re also not having to fire bad devs as much.
Then you should probably have a portfolio of projects.
Between my workday and my family, when am I going to have time to make a portfolio of projects that are complex enough that an AI couldn’t have generated them?