Ask HN: What are good questions to ask in a remote round in post GPT era?
3 ashu1461 8 7/4/2025, 2:31:39 AM
Almost all candidates nowadays seem to have some form of external help or LLM-based assistance setup during remote interviews.
This makes it increasingly difficult to fairly assess a candidate's actual skills and independent thinking ability.
How are interview processes changing at your company — or at places where you're interviewing — to adapt to this new reality?
Are there any new patterns, tools, or formats you're using to ensure a fair evaluation?
Just ask them how photons lose energy due to inflation and where that energy goes.
I haven't interviewed people at all in a year or so though.
One suggestion I saw recently in a thread was asking deliberately incorrect questions, such as how to implement a particular solution using an irrelevant technology. LLMs are so 'eager to please' they seem to just BS some nonsense in response. Not sure how I feel about that approach however.
I have a standard set of behavioral questions.
The complexity in most development is managing business complexity and a large code base. You’re not going to be able to suss that out by coding interview.
System design based on their actual experience and behavioral questions are better anyway.
Besides if your coding interview can be passed by using an LLM and your day to day coding can’t, by definition your interview isn’t an accurate assessment of whether they can do the job.
Both system design / verbal discussions and programming rounds are critical to the interview process.