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0 pointsAurornis2y ago0 comments

> - Using ChatGPT is not cheating.

> - Using an IDE is not cheating.

> - Using StackOverflow is not cheating.

> - Reading the documentation is not cheating.

That's not how any form of testing works.

The person taking the test doesn't get to determine the parameters of the test. Imagine a college student pulling out their cellular phone and looking up Wikipedia during their final because "Wikipedia is not cheating"

The test is also supposed to be administered to everyone on equal footing. If some candidates are substituting their own definition of cheating then they're putting everyone else at a disadvantage.

It doesn't matter what you expect or how you would interview someone. When you participate in someone else's interview, you play by their rules. You don't substitute your own.

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andrewstuart2y ago· 1 in thread

Of course I'm not advocating for people to go to interviews and do whatever they want.

I'm suggesting that the companies doing the interview have an assessment process that reflects what the actual job is that they are asking people to do.

AurornisOP2y ago

> I'm suggesting that the companies doing the interview have an assessment process that reflects what the actual job is that they are asking people to do.

This idea sounds great on paper, but the actual job we expect people to do requires months of context and collaboration.

It doesn't fit into an interview. That's an unfortunate reality of interviews.

So interview problems must be artificially small and artificially constrained.

If you wanted to work on a couple 2-week sprints by yourself for free with no guarantee of a job and use ChatGPT as your sidekick, be my guest. But if you want to get the interview done in a matter of hours then I have to shrink the problem down to something that fits into a matter of hours to reveal how you work. If you're just copying into ChatGPT and then poking at the output, that's not a good test nor representation of anything.

sanderjd2y ago

Interviews shouldn't be "testing", they should be approximations of work samples. And this absolutely is how working works, for many people.

If you think your interview process is the SAT, you're doing it wrong.

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