I wish. They are the most easily exploitable, sadly. People memorize and dump stuff all the time, and it usually doesn’t show reasoning, just how much money and effort you spent on CS fundamentals.
My team has weeded out a lot of bad candidates with super simple, practical tasks. Explain DNS. Order keys from a JSON object. Make a 2 column layout in plain html. You would be amazed at who can’t do that.
What we don’t do is ask the same questions too many people times, as we know some candidates compare notes and even publish the interview questions. With large language models doing the talking we have already found candidates that have been unable to describe the for loop copilot made for them off-screen… so I guess the best system is to be good at being humans and having a go at working together in something.
My team has weeded out a lot of bad candidates with super simple, practical tasks. Explain DNS. Order keys from a JSON object. Make a 2 column layout in plain html. You would be amazed at who can’t do that.
What we don’t do is ask the same questions too many people times, as we know some candidates compare notes and even publish the interview questions. With large language models doing the talking we have already found candidates that have been unable to describe the for loop copilot made for them off-screen… so I guess the best system is to be good at being humans and having a go at working together in something.