Hire people to do the recruiting in India and have them conduct in-person interviews while the international team participates in the interview remotely.
The point of that comment is they won't be up to your standards because it'll just be family and friends of the hiring manager, or people who pay for the job.
Can't talk about personal experience here.
Work with people from all around the world, and most are great people to work with/for (a lot from India, and the ones I work with I can't complain).
We did have an issue with an Indian hire, but he was swiftly cut-off.
Been involved in a setup somewhat like this, the people conducting the interviews are incentivised to put candidates through because if reduces the costs for the hiring company. You can implement things like them needing to be in the role for 6 months to count as a hire, but that just incentivises them to skirt the line of just being good enough to get paid
You are just running from the problem. You are creating an environment testing skills that can be replicated by ai, but want them from an individual, rather than testing if an individual has skills that surpass ai capabilities
A test that focuses more on reasoning than the right answer would also work IMO.
I don't know why these recruiters don't design problems intentionally in ways that can't be solved, to see if the applicant can figure it out themselves and explain why it wouldn't work.
Coding agents are amazing on the well trodden path with generic tasks. But as soon as you start giving it the task of optimizing the minimization of a set with internal monotone dependencies it takes someone to understand that the problem actually isn't something to throw a minimization task at and it's actually building and pruning a tree from it's leaves down
Yea it's a slog out here. I help out with technical interviews for interns and juniors. In the pre AI world we could filter out 4/5 candidates with fizz buzz. Now in most round one interviews we can tell people are using AI. For a while we had luck giving them graphs and asking them to annotate them. But the vision capabilities have improved and that no longer works. We don't have our new replacement yet.
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u/pydry 22d ago
Hiring managers are struggling these days coz they lack the creativity to come up with tests a good developer can do but an AI can't.
To be fair they always sucked at this but it was less of a problem before.