I absolutely despise companies that do automated interview processes. You need to sit and talk to a candidate to properly vet them, then again there are some dumb interviewers who ask the most ridiculous questions

Not familiar with this - what dies an automated interview entail? Just forms?

Sounds like a great way to get a team of braindead code monkeys.

Be like them and let ChatGPT answer the interview

That's because 95% of candidats can't answer a "hello world" type of question. So yeah, first screening line is to ask the dumb, easy question.

here is an example to you :

DateTime date;

Console.Writeln ( date == null ? "Null" : date.ToString())

Just ask what is the output ? 95% of 'people applying can't answer.

@NoToJavaScript where do you get the 95% from? I would say it’s 5%.
Obviously it also depends, but 95% seems to be too high no matter what.

i think automated interview processes are great.

they are a unmistakable indicator that you should never ever ever even think about applying to a company ever again.

@Lensflare So bare in mind. It was around 18 months ago. here is the FULL question defintion :

What is the output of the short program below? Explain your answer.

class Program

{

static String location;

static DateTime time;

static void Main()

{

Console.WriteLine(location == null ? "location is null" : location);

Console.WriteLine(time == null ? "time is null" : time.ToString());

}

}

And back in the day (Not true now), chatGPT was producing wrong response.

But out of 50ish people, 45 or more were wrong on this question. I strongly suspect copy/paste in chatGPT. Which really was not so great at the time

@Lensflare Oh and even now. So here is a question number 3. Which actually has a one line code solution. It can literally be resolved fast and "just with a bit" of overhead in 1 line of code .

ChatGPT weill produce something like 30+ lines of code and people will just copy paste it. This one I just retested. And it's still the case today.

Rotating numbers: Write a function which takes 2 integer parameters n and x. This function should return n numbers after x which are read the same after rotating them by 180 degrees. Examples:

101

609

1111111111

8

Additional information: digits: 2,3,4,5,7 cannot be “rotated”

Or small edit : The part when you "rotate" the number is a one liner. Still needs couple of lines of code :)

@NoToJavaScript IIRC, DateTime is a struct. So, it cannot be null. Shouldn’t date == null be a compilation error?
And what kind of mistake do the people make with this specific interview question?

About the original topic:
If the problem is that people use chatgpt to answer interview questions, then it’s an argument for face to face interviews and not automatic ones.