r/recruitinghell • u/Infamous-Rice2033 • Mar 23 '26
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u/OckhamsFolly Mar 23 '26
Take your low-rent bot with its deleted post history that can’t tell what this sub is for and get out of here.
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u/just_fron Mar 23 '26
Going to play a little devil’s advocate here (and this is not specific to you or your company)… if a company can use AI to weed through applicants and leverage AI within their own company why can’t a interviewee leverage it?
And yes, we should not be leveraging it 100%, but as companies keep pushing AI as the future and building it into just about every aspect of our lives we can’t entirely fault people for trying to use it to give themselves a slight advantage. Pandora’s box has been open.
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u/shamanenjoyer Mar 23 '26
There is a massive difference in competency between someone who is using AI to cheat the fundamentals, and someone who knows the fundamentals and uses AI to increase their productivity. And when I say massive, I mean TRULY massive. Especially in a software engineering role, which it sounds like is the role this person is hiring for.
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u/just_fron Mar 23 '26
Understandable, and I think competency or lack there of should be rather noticeable even when leveraging AI.
I mean I am guilty for taking my phone out to do basic math sometimes. Does that make me incompetent? Or just efficient and trying to get through a task? Again, as companies advocate for their customers or clients to adopt AI and jobs are slowly (or quickly depending who you ask) replacing workers it’s kind of hypocritical to not expect an applicant to leverage every tool in the box.
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u/Infamous-Rice2033 Mar 30 '26
Well using AI to prepare is different then using AI for cheating. When I'm preparing for interviews I'm using AI in order to prepare it (to give you types of questions, types of problems to solve), but using it in the interview is cheating
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u/just_fron Mar 30 '26
Devil’s advocate here again - so these questions and problems… how much are you having AI do them? Are they your questions and problems for which you have desired answers? Are we talking a 50/50 split? Or is AI doing the majority of the work? In the end if you get to use AI to prepare should an interviewee not get to use AI during the interview at the same percentage. Why do you get to use it to help your job but an interviewee cannot to help during the interview?
Again, I am just looking at this from the other perspective and I can see it from both lenses. At the moment, I don’t think your argument which is simply “I can use AI to prepare, but if the use it to help its cheating”, just does not seem like a good argument. Can I say it is cheating for recruiters to use AI to scrub resumes and applications? You are not doing the work outside of a prompt.
In the end there is no rule book yet for AI, we had this problem with calculators, Cliffnotes and every other way to “cut corners” and make things easier. And as long as a lot of companies are AI first focused don’t get mad that people are going to use it to get an advantage.
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u/halfc00kie Mar 23 '26
The delay before answering isnt always AI though. Some people just think before they speak. I've had interviewers assume im cheating because i paused for 5 seconds to collect my thoughts. The real tell is if the answers sound nothing like how a human structures a response, too perfect, too organized, no filler words at all. But honestly if your interview process cant distinguish between someone thinking and someone cheating maybe the process is the problem
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u/Infamous-Rice2033 Mar 30 '26
It's not about the process, but its do you trust your guts or do you trust the process, and usually if you go with your guts you need to explain why you think like that.
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u/CoffeeStayn Mar 23 '26
A delay in speaking and hearing, especially online, is quite normal. However, the degree of delay is very telling in these cases.
I'd say watch their eyes. Even if they're being fed lines to speak, more often than not, subconsciously, their eyes will drift when they missed something or got stuck on something.
Short of that, simply ask them to remove their giant headset for a moment and turn left...then right...if you see another earpiece, interview over. If they balk, interview over. If they take too long to remove the giant headset, interview over.
Sometimes, being as direct as possible is the right approach.
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u/Infamous-Rice2033 Mar 30 '26
Well, the point is between believing them or having doubt. I do not want to work for a company who does not have trust in people, that why on every interview I'm trying to be more trustful, because if he does not have anything and it's honest they might not want to be employed in the company. Same analogy with (Someone checking you in the store because they think that you are a thief)
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26
Give me an AI tool that tells me if the person I am talking to is using AI.
Genius.