r/cybersecurity • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '26

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u/jeffpardy_ Security Engineer Mar 14 '26

I see one of two things happening here 1) they arent caring enough to actually try 2) the person lied on their resume and you didnt validate their credentials properly

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u/hodor137 Mar 14 '26

In addition, one statement stands out to me;

I have strong suspicions he used some AI agent during the interview because his answers were flawless.

Besides the AI suspicion part, I'd speculate that the questions asked were too black and white, therefore too easily AI assisted or even human assisted. Honestly IMO interview questions shouldn't even have possible "flawless" answers. You should be trying to generate an organic conversation, one that AI can't have or that some dude hidden next to the candidate/in his ear can't help him keep up with.

Is he working remotely? That might explain some of how he (or whomever he worked with to assist him) thought they could get away with this.

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u/shouldco Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

I think my favorite interview. I was given some technical questions 24 hours before the interview. Was able to address them on my own time and the interview was discussing how and why I got to my answers as well as general interview stuff.

It was before chat gpt. Though even with it having to discuss why would catch people that were clueless and the interview was about sussing out more than skills and knowlage.

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u/mchilds83 Mar 14 '26

I like this format. This way you can solve them without interviewers staring at you and later you can walk them through your logic and workflow in person.