They were typing in your questions? That must have been pretty slow and obvious.

That is pretty depressing. It's funny how easy it would be to not give yourself away too. It's ridiculously easy to spot some of the general ChatGPT tells and simply not recite them.

Even without the answers, I can't imagine I wouldn't realize by the pace and format of the responses that they were simply read to me instead of said.

I've never had such experience and it seems very low effort.

In any case there's absolutely no risk of someone passing an interview with ChatGPT on our end because it's about seeing how people think and what they've experienced.

Y'know, that's surprisingly on-brand for the company that owns tumblr, a website full of socially anxious introverts who would rather perish than make a phone call.

You'd be surprised. After all, if we were not lazy we'd be still digging the ground with our bare hands. "How do I get X while doing less work" is a kind of laze that defines human.

Reminds me of Ron Burgundy!

Many years ago I had someone copy and paste two pages from an Oracle manual, complete with formatting, in response to an e-mailed screening question about MySQL that required a one line answer. It was just an initial screening where we had relatively low expectations and halfway expected a lot of people to search - letting a few too many people through was ok, we just wanted to whittle down the pool.

But after that we realised the screening worked even better when we input random sentences from the answers into Google and used it to weed out the people who were not just dishonest enough to give a verbatim answer from somewhere without disclosing it, but who very often did so in ways that meant they got it horribly wrong. E.g. another example was the guy who copied and pasted a forum post. Not only was the answer wrong, but it was followed on the forum by a large number of responses from other people explaining why it was wrong.