AMA: just had an AI debugging interview

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amammals@reddit

I don't understand how the pictures relate to the interview. were these snippets that you were supposed to debug? not really knowing go or these python libraries, they seem fine ish?

What did you end up doing for these snippets?

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Ok_Pepper_1744@reddit

Can you please shared the solution? I haven't messed with ai and would like to see how it's applied here

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Objective-Knee7587@reddit (OP)

I would never know the solution since it was totally one directional. Zero feedback or challenge on my answers

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Terrible-Painting-39@reddit

At first I had hope: by “AI debugging interview” I thought you meant your task was to fix a buggy mess that AI produced. The reality is so much worse.

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Objective-Knee7587@reddit (OP)

The title reads weird. Apologies for the bait and switch

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Objective-Knee7587@reddit (OP)

Didn’t enjoy it especially knowing that my answer is going to be fed into their products (models) for training purposes

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aidencoder@reddit

Unless I could take the code and run it, with you know, a debugger... I'd hang up and take it as a win not having to work somewhere with bat shit screening practices.

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Objective-Knee7587@reddit (OP)

I wish I could use breakpoints and debugger but the interface didn’t support that. It was just straight up a static image of the code.

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Objective-Knee7587@reddit (OP)

Thought it would be investing. It was my first time, but I doubt if it’s gonna be my last time taking AI led interviews

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Objective-Knee7587@reddit (OP)

I’m not condoning or opposing this format of interview. It was my first time having an AI conduct a technical interview from start to finish. I just wanted to share the types of questions that were asked.

It mostly focused on - how to fix the given codebase - how to improve and debug it

Pros: it was simple and straightforward. I was anxious at the beginning but then I realized this was just a self tape video.

Cons: unlike real interviews, the ai won’t give you more nuggets to mull over, which is not a good thing. I usually walk away from interviews having learned something new, which wasn’t the case this time.

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IncandescentWallaby@reddit

Honestly, I like interviews that do this. I had one where the guy just brought up a code base and asked me to figure out why it was crashing and fix it.

Had a lot of fun talking through things and showing off some gdb powers.

So much better than some pointless implement a linked list thing.

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local-person-nc@reddit

Except there is no guy at the other end of this "interview" hence AI

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Objective-Knee7587@reddit (OP)

I would have enjoyed it more if my interviewer (AI) had given me more concrete pointers but it just mostly echoed what I said. Didn’t feel like I learnt something new from this interview

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Bobby-McBobster@reddit

This is a "do you know by heart this one specific library" debugging session, not an AI debugging session.

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Objective-Knee7587@reddit (OP)

Which was led by AI