alt Hacker NewsIn the UK the driving test requires a portion of driving using a satnav, the idea being that drivers are going to use satnavs so it's important to test that they know how how to use them safely.
The same goes for using Claude in a programming interview. If the environment of interview is not representative of how people actually work then the interview needs to be changed.
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adhamsalama • today at 6:18 AM
We don't solve LeetCode for a living yet it is asked in interviews anyway, so nah, we don't have to use AI in interviews.
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In the Before Times we used to do programming interviews with “you can use Google and stack overflow” for precisely this reason. We weren’t testing for encyclopaedic knowledge - we were testing to see if the candidate could solve a problem.
But the hard part is designing the problem so that it exercises skill.