You could reasonably argue that they're not cheating, indeed they're being very behaviorally revealing and you do understand everything you need to understand about them.

Too bad for them, but works for you…

I'm imagining a hiring workflow, for a role that is not 'specifically use AI for a thing', in which there is no suggestion that you shouldn't use AI systems for any part of the interview. It's just that it's an auto-fail, and if someone doesn't bother to hide it it's 'thanks for your time, bye!'.

And if they work to hide it, you know they're dishonest, also an auto-fail.

If the company is doing behavioral Q&A interviews, I hope they're getting as many bad applicants as possible.

Adding a load of pseudo-science to the already horrible process of looking for a job is definitely not what we need.

I'll never submit myself to pseudo-IQ tests and word association questions for a job that will 99.9% of the time ask you to build CRUD applications.

The lengths that companies go to avoid doing a proper job at hiring people (one of the most important jobs they need to do) with automatic screening and these types of interviews is astonishing.

Good on whoever uses AI for that kind of shit. They want bullshit so why not use the best bullshit generators of our time?

You want to talk to me and get a feeling about how I'd behave? That's totally normal and expected. But if you want to get a bunch of written text to then run sentiment analysis on it and get a score on how "good" it is? Screw that.

I think there's a misunderstanding here. I just want to talk to the applicant and see what they think about working with designers, their thoughts on learning golang as a javascript developer, or how they've handled a last minute "high priority" project.

I assumed you meant behavioral interviews where companies try to "match" you with personality types through word association and other questions. Pseudo-science that I've seen used in multiple supposed tech companies.

When I did hiring, the questions you're referring to were normal interview questions. I had never categorized them as behavioral, but I might be ignorant to the slang.

Answering those kind of questions with AI sounds... absurd? Heh, I guess I'm not sure how you gain anything from AI answering those. Maybe time if you're automating everything? Still, I'd ask those questions in a video call not through email as they're a great opportunity to learn about the person in front of you.