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Using AI in interviews -- looking for volunteers for mock AI-enabled interviews. If you are proficient in using AI in your daily work (job, hobby projects, school work), and you'd like to try to use them also during interview, ping me. This is community-driven effort!

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Just noticed that replies to my post didn't give me any notification 😮‼️ Am I missing some obvious setting somewhere? (like by default disabled DMs)

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So, just because I work for Microsoft, all my community/private efforts are doomed to be bad? ... Interesting

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Argh, I somehow missed all replies (!) and had DMs disabled. Double fail. Emberassing. If you are still interested, please ping me (DM, or contacts on karelz.github.io). We are starting next week.

Karel Zikmund - About Me

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Well, candidates are "cheating" with AI. And given that AI is a useful developer tool (like calculator is for math), it is just natural evolution, isn't it? Would you hire a mathematician who is refusing to use calculator?

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Argh, I somehow missed all replies (!) and had DMs disabled. Double fail. Emberassing. If you are still interested, please ping me (DM, or contacts on karelz.github.io). We are starting next week.

Karel Zikmund - About Me

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 12/03/2025

Argh, I somehow missed all replies (!) and had DMs disabled. Double fail. Emberassing. If you are still interested, please ping me (DM, or contacts on karelz.github.io). We are starting next week.

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Reposted by Karel Zikmund

This comment by Anders Hejlsberg on the choice of languages for TypeScript is worth reading. Spead that type of thinking! (And recognize the massive shift that Microsoft made)

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Reposted by Karel Zikmund

Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 08/03/2025

😂😅

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Both easily spotted. One on eyes. Both on answers and how they present them. Don't they understand it is possible to spot them? Do they hope interviewers will not notice?

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The "fun" thing is my colleagues met cheaters over last half a year if not longer. I didn't, until couple of weeks ago (and I interview a lot ... 150-200 per year) And it is second instance since then ...

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Sensitive responses into DM, I will keep them confidential / anonymized!

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Poll time: Would you consider using AI in interview, when it is explicitly forbidden? If yes and if you were found out, how would you react?

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I tried to challenge one such person at the end of the interview. They were prepared with aggressive attack and proofs at hand why they are not cheating. Weird experience, won't do it again. Now focused on embracing AI in interviews: karelz.github.io/ai-interviews

Karel Zikmund - Using AI in Interviews - Experiment / Mock Interviews

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What do you do when you catch candidates cheating with AI during interviews? (when it is upfront forbidden) When it is obvious, i.e. they have no clue what they write, why, or start parroting encyclopedic knowledge without saying why.

Karel Zikmund - Using AI in Interviews - Experiment / Mock Interviews

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So, users will use .NET and expect us to do the heavy lifting ... sniff

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If there is too high demand, we might start choosing participants - will be done in direct DMs.

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We are looking for both experienced devs and also uni students -- you qualify, if you think you can use AI efficiently to boost your productivity in coding/problem solving/designing. Does not matter if you think you are "good enough" for Microsoft or not. Anyone can participate.

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What to expect? ... We will adjust as we go, but first proposal is: - 1h interview session (over Teams with shared screen to see how you use your favorite AI in your preferred IDE) - 30-60 mins free chat/on-off mentoring session (either same session, or separate)

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What's in it for you? - You get direct feedback from experienced interviewer - Free chat / one-off mentoring session with successful Microsoft engineer/interviewer about topics of your choice Interested? ... Ping me! (Reposts appreciated)

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Few of us, interested in hiring, want to find out how best to assess candidates who use AI - their ability to use AI tools efficiently to be more productive at their job. AI tools put an end to Leetcode-style questions, so let's find a way how to assess the AI-empowered engineer.

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