Virtual work interviews are already normal in employment search processes. The problem is that in certain areas, such as software and programmers engineers, candidates usually take advantage of AI tools to cheat. The trend is so worrying that some companies are already returning to what always worked: interviews in person.
Google wants to meet you in person. SUCTAR PICHAI, CEO of Google, explained in June in the Podcast of Lex Friedman that renewal of the company’s policies when hiring certain profiles. “We are making sure that we introduce at least one round of the candidate for the candidates, just to ensure that the fundamental aspects are fulfilled.”
Return to the face -to -face. Pichai’s message is the same as other companies such as Apple, Meta, Cisco or the McKinsey consultant, which are among a growing number of companies that are recovering face -to -face interviews with candidates in various stages of the selection process. Mike Kyle, from the Coda Search/Staffing Employment Agency, explained how the quota of companies that have the requirement to make face -to -face interviews has become 30%, when in 2024 it was only 5%.
If you want what salary I offer you, I need to meet you. That return to face -to -face interviews usually also focus on the last part of the selection process, but in reality it can occur at any time. If you do not present yourself physically at some point in that process, you will not know what conditions (salary included) the company offers you.
Cheat programmers. As we said, that is especially true for profiles such as programmers. During some phases of the interviews, real -time sessions usually consider in which candidates must solve a programming problem. In virtual interviews, what has happened is that the interviewees cheat and use AI to solve the problem, which is not clear whether or not those candidates meet the requirements.
AI has become a problem. The resurgence of interviews in person tries to mitigate the problem that AI has raised. Companies that offer jobs have ended up using AI systems to filter candidates, who usually flood those offers because they also use AI to generate their CVS adapted to each position and automate the request for various positions quickly.
THE ART OF THE TRAPS A few months ago we counted how a student managed to overcome a Amazon technical interview thanks to the use of AI. That gave him a disturbing idea, because he created a startup called Cluelly to help others do the same or to make exams. One that in fact advertises with an unusual message: “Cheat everything.” The idea seems to have liked, because the investment firm A16Z has already injected 15 million dollars into the project.
Deepfakes that are interviewed for you. That is a good example of a dangerous trend. It is not that candidates try to deceive companies about their real capacities thanks to AI: there are people who are using these methods much more worrying. The FBI already warned in 2023 of a fraud that involved thousands of North Koreans who pretended to be North American seeking to work remotely in US companies. His way of doing so was really striking and complex.
Be careful with murmuring. Companies that use virtual interviews in their selection processes are also paying special attention to these traps. In fact, some try to detect them by monitoring indications that can aim at fraud: muttering out of the screen or typing and then pauses before answering (waiting to see what the chatgpt tells them on duty to read that answer) It is usually a clue to hunt checkery.
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