I'm interviewing at Coinbase as a software engineer. Unlike the other companies in my pipeline, in Coinbase I'm interviewing with robots, which attempt to quantify my qualities. Behavioral robot is an online questionnaire, around 30 mins. It asks about hypothetical situations and requests to rate action items solving these situations on a scale from most effective to least effective. Coding robot is a CodeSignal evaluation. It presents 4 LC easy-medium coding challenges, next challenge builds on the previous one. The robot mandates that to successfully pass the test, it needs to capture your screen and your webcam feed during the evaluation. You also need to provide a copy of your ID to the robot. Feels somewhat like a Black Mirror episode. Reference check robot comes from Searchlight.ai. It asks for your professional references and sends them a survey with multiple choice questions. This robot attempts to quantify your character traits and to provide "a 3D picture of candidate's job specific capabilities, soft skills and growth areas". This approach seems quite impersonal and stands out from other companies. I wonder what other robots Coinbase employees encounter in their day-to-day work? For example, a robot asking to write 200 more lines of code today. Or a robot indicating the use of wrong pronouns based on meeting video recordings. Maybe one requiring scheduling more meetings with the cross-org partners?
I mean sounds great to me. Way easier to game a robot interview than a human one. Think I’ll apply to coinbase and have a buddy with a second laptop sit on the opposite side of the desk and tell me all the right answers. I’ll cover the microphone so it doesn’t pick up the audio
They are looking for robots! What were you doing interviewing for a job meant for robots?
Just getting you ready for the AI future where your manager is a robot. Coders will be replaced soon but frankly it's even easier to automate assignment of tickets in sprints than it is to create a feature. The engineers themselves could even prompt the AI manager to break the task down for them more if it's still too broad. Creating PowerPoints and spreadsheets showing deadlines based on which tasks are in progress and which aren't - and notifying the appropriate upper management when deadlines are at risk - could all probably be replaced by an LLM not too much more advanced than what we have today whereas ChatGPT still can't write working code most of the time.
The behavioral robot is a joke. Most questions are like: Rank each of these traits from least like me to most like me. You can’t skip any of the traits, and can’t give the same rank to any two of them: 1. Sexually harasses coworkers 2. Drinks on the job 3. Does more cocaine than hunter Biden 4. Tells everyone to F off all the time 5. Doesn’t do any work
On point! :D
Lmao this is so true
Didn’t even bother doing it. Dumb af. That company that collects answer about work personality must be making bank for having dumb companies use it.