The article concludes by advising companies to change their interview questions to custom ones to prevent cheating and improve the hiring process. It also discourages job seekers from using ChatGPT to cheat in interviews, stating that it is stressful, difficult, and unethical. The authors hope that the advent of ChatGPT will push the industry to move away from memorization-based interviews and towards testing actual engineering ability.
Key takeaways:
- ChatGPT has the potential to significantly impact technical interviewing, with concerns that it could be used to cheat in interviews.
- In an experiment conducted by interviewing.io, it was found that candidates using ChatGPT to cheat were not caught by interviewers, and the cheating was most effective when the interview questions were verbatim or slightly modified LeetCode questions.
- However, when interviewers asked custom questions that were not directly tied to any existing online questions, the pass rate dropped significantly, suggesting that this could be an effective strategy to prevent cheating with ChatGPT.
- The study concludes that companies need to change their interview questions immediately, moving away from verbatim LeetCode questions and towards custom questions, to ensure they are not at risk of candidates cheating during interviews.