Ghosts in the Interview Loop and Avoiding AI Taylorism
summary
ThousandEyes encounters in 2025: 300 applicants for a midlevel SRE, coding rounds produce AI-generated perfect code that matches ChatGPT verbatim, so the process pivots to a take-home Terraform assignment (2–3 days) to test reasoning; reviewers find large AI-driven pull requests full of junk because models struggle with the company’s Stacks layout; daily tool use (Cursor, ChatGPT) boosts productivity but risks eroding causal mental models and creating an urge toward AI Taylorism.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:05Changing hiring practices
- 7:15AI tooling in coding interviews
- 13:29War on expertise and Taylorism
- 20:07AI as tool versus operator
- 28:35AI as operator
- 32:49Adapting hiring and AI use
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