After the first interview round I had a technical interview round. This is where things got quite surreal.
First of all, I am a developer with 11+ years of experience and I use AI for the coding in the past 1-2 year intensively. This means 12 hours / day (as besides my job I was also building my own projects with AI).
Anyway the point is I have quite an expert level of experience and skillset with AI on production big projects/domains and on my own greenfield projects.
But let's jump back to the technical assessment interview part.
In the beginning the role and the interview process looked to me very promising. As here during the whole interview I had to us AI. Yes - I sad to myself, finally a company that knows how these days developers with AI skills solving problems -. But the black soup just came right after when I had to realise the interviewer has almost zero sense how to work with AI tools. The guy had no idea what is TDD approach, why it is so important to first of all cover the logic with test that your AI is dealing with / touching cause without tests you just play a black box guessing game without being sure if other logical units, logical layers, etc are still functioning or not.
Instead he just insisted to focus on specific code blocks, methods, classes and keep asking the AI assistent to improve the performance or apply modifications. As a results of this so unprofessional "guidance" the one hour passed without any progress. Hell Yeah.
And the fun fact, I asked for a re-interview, where I had to do the same kind of task with another interviewer who was as incompetent as the previous guy. I felt like I am having the exact same nightmare two times in a row.
At this point I just give up. But I felt like, maybe, if this company real goal is to design AI coding interviews for other companies then maybe there is a slight change that I can help them by telling the truth: Your guys definitely have no real project experience / delivery experience with AI. Maybe some in house project, but I am 100% sure they just trained - self thought themselves under the pressure of changing times and they could simply mislead the management of your company saying: Yes we are now skilled in AI, we did some Udemy course, we built with AI some test interview problems, so let's go, let us be the AI coding interviewers and problem designers from now on.
Yes, probably this was not the boldest move to say the truth right into their faces, but I also offered my services as a solution for this problem (the staff having lack of real - hands on AI skills) in form of being the leader / trainer of these guys and together we can be sure REAL skills and experience based interview scenarios and problems will be delivered.
They promised me forwarding my feedback and my alternative offer to a higher level management / decision maker... One month passed and still no response.
So yeah, they just keep fooling thousand of their clients who believe that their AI assistant designed coding interviews are make sense (no they don't if the designers behind are clueless developers).