31 January, 2024

How hard is it to cheat with ChatGPT in technical interviews? We ran an experiment.

https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-chatgpt-in-technical-interviews

As it turns out, not a single interviewer mentioned concerns about any of the candidates cheating!

We were stunned to discover that interviewers reported no suspicions of cheating, and interestingly, interviewees were largely confident that they were getting away with it, too. 81% reported no concerns about being caught, 13% thought they might have tipped off the interviewer, and an astonishingly small 6% of participants thought the interviewer suspected them of cheating.

The candidates who worried they were caught did have abnormal comments from the interviewers in the post-survey analysis, but they still were not suspected of cheating. To summarize, most candidates thought they were getting away with cheating — and they were right!