alt Hacker NewsThe "work an unpaid shift" interview is a common tactic of low-rent bars. It's very scummy.
In software, how much can you really get out of a human with a very small context who has no long term view or investment in the quality of the codebase? If you care that little, you'd just punt it off to vibe agents.
In the article they spend a lot of time explaining how they surveil and supposedly evaluate interactions with LLM bots, so I gather that's what they care about rather than inherent skill and personality of the candidate.
I've been interviewing some lately, mainly with organisations that have tight restrictions on non-EU-services. It has been nice, we've been able to talk about what they need, what I can do and how their team works together and interfaces with the rest of the organisation.
Eventually I settled on an offer from an organisation that handles a lot of sensitive information and runs a kind of 'factory' style process, so there'll be requirements reminiscent of old fashioned industrial engineering and exactly zero vibing at work, at least if the Security Service says my reputation is good enough.