I've been doing a lot of interviews lately where candidates use ChatGPT. Just since I often get LinkedIn Stalked before those interviews I figured I'd use the opportunity to throw down how I feel about it. 1) Definitely just ask me up front if I mind you using ChatGPT to do an answer. I would MUCH prefer you ask me, I say yes, and then you type, read and use it to form a basis of your own thoughts. If you don't do this I get a half-formed thought of you trying to speak to something you don't really understand, presented as your own thoughts, and you present MUCH worse 2) I might say no! Some of the questions I'm asking when I interview are about understanding intuition and your ability to think through a problem space. These questions are never trivia questions, but instead structured to get a better understanding of how you approach problems, and it's READILY apparent when folks are reading instead of thinking I don't think there's a number 3, but what do folks here think? What's your experience with ChatGPT/AI as both an interviewer and interviewee?
ChatGPT should be off limits for interviews.
Andrew Myers
1w
I wonder if interviewers get their questions from ChatGPT, if they actually think up their own questions, or if its become so routine that their questions are automatic... Meanwhile, Interviewee's just kinda have to deal with whatever curveball the interviewer throws at them.. God forbid they should have any help
Can I ask a really stupid question here? WHY would someone want to use AI to answer questions during an interview? Isn't that like putting something you know absolutely nothing about on your CV? (I started out in "the biz" as a kid actor. My Agent told me NEVER put something you don't actually know how to do on your resume. (Example, I have 2 left feet, putting dancing on my resume would have been a real blow it move). What good could using AI in an interview be if you actually do get hired? Either A: You'll Look like an Incompetent Imbecile OR B: You'll look like a Lying Incompetent Imbecile. Neither would be a good look.
That ‘skip the middleman’ phrase comes to mind when reading this post.
Cleve Young
1w
Curious: "LinkedIn Stalked" - What does that even mean? Do you mean they looked up your LinkedIn profile and your posts/comments before the interview? If so, in what way is that 'stalking', as isn't that the whole purpose of LinkedIn to be able to find out more about a person professionally which the person is deliberately putting out there for such purpose? Or perhaps I'm missing the point on what you consider stalking.
lol so you ask someone a question and then there’s like some awkward pause before the answer or what?
Using AI in your daily workflow is a no-brainer. Use it as a spar partner but not as a writer. During an interview I’d consider it cheating unless you discuss it beforehand. In an interview you want to get to know the person before you. Possibly you so want to see how they team up with an AI and how critical they are in analyzing its responses (for someone doing a ton of code reviews, it’s clear some people are not critical at all and just copy paste whatever it postulates).
L&D, Talent, and Organizational Development Professional
1wAs a hiring manager, I usually only interview my top 3 or 4 choices for the role to start with, so I'm very interested in what they have to say, and how they think - not what Chat GPT or some other AI tells them to think. I usually make it a point to include at least one "ungoogleable" question in the interview - something that should prompt a specific type of response, and if they are using an AI tool, or if they just don't have the skillset I'm looking for, it will go right past them.