AI killed the tech interview. Now what?
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Stop remote tech interviews
Unless the job you're interviewing for is remote-only, this makes perfect sense. If you expect your candidates to be able to work in your office, they should be interviewed there.
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I never understood why Big Tech never setup contracts with all the SAT and ACT test centers across the country. Even before Zoom with Codepads it would have made sense for the recruiters to send potential candidates to a test center to do a pre assessment rather than waste time with engineers sitting on prescreen calls all day.
What exactly are you suggesting here? A standardized test that applies to all your job applications? Or, a candidate having to drive to a test center for every company they apply to? Or something else?
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Standardized plus the ability for companies to do their own test after they pass the standard one. So go get prescreened at test center then use that test to apply for jobs. Company either flys you in for in-person or sends you back to test center to do live remote interview in controlled environment.
It's been tried and failed: Sun Microsystems pushed certifications in the 90s. Pass the test on some technology, get the certification. Then they studied performance. The result? More certifications implied a worse employee. The reason was the top performing employees had no time to study for the exams, but the managers of the bottom performing employees were happy to send them off to training and testing. And then the certification fad came mostly to an end.
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I always felt like the Sun and Cisco certs were more about creating people that would push their products on other companies.
Big Tech / Unicorn / Wannabe Unicorn prescreens are all basically standardized now anyway.
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It's a tricky subject, because what if people who use AI are just better together? And what if in a year from now, AI by itself is better? What's the point of hiring anyone? Perhaps this is the issue behind the problems being described, which might be mere symptoms. There are tons of very smart teams working on software that will basically replace the people you're hiring.
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