Sitting in on an interview for a mid-level engineer role. We have a small code test in C# (probably LC easy). We tell candidates they can use the internet to look stuff up for syntax, etc. This guy first uses Stack Overflow and then ChatGPT to basically solve the crux of the problem, and then still can't figure it out. #ChatGPT #interview
If they use chatGPT to check things your rules allow, like syntax, then it’s fine. If you allowed it, then it seems silly to hold it against the candidate. But why would you let a candidate lookup the answer to the crux of the problem on stack overflow or chatGPT in the first place?
I agree. I wasn't running the interview. I think it took the person running it by surprise, so they said yes to using ChatGpt. I think I would say no if a candidate asked me. If the candidate used it and showed and understanding of the response and how to plug it in to the rest of the problem I wouldn't have counted that against him because we allowed it. But they fumbled with it, so it wasn't a hard decision.