The first round was, somewhat ironically, an AI screening, requiring his AI persona to converse with the company’s own AI chatbot. He passed. In the live video interview that followed, Moore ran a separate program in the background that listened to the conversation and fed him suggested answers whenever a question came up he wasn’t sure how to handle.
having spent the past 20+ years working for various startups, tech companies, contracting and what have you…no, I can see this working out for someone very easily.
very few, if any, of these places would actually verify your credentials. Once. only one time. has my education been verified. once in 20+ years. NEVER have I needed to show ID for any position. all they required from me is a social insurance number and bank account number for direct deposits. that’s it. something someone would be able to easily obtain/fake if need be. I’ve worked at places who had employees they’d never met in person at all. Pretty much ALL of these places have at least one guy (and you all know who i’m talking about) that never stepped foot in the office, was completely remote, did practically nothing, but was on payroll because he built something or “maintained” something that the entire company depended on. he’d get paid to randomly pop up in a jira or something once every 3 months to say “don’t do that, it’ll break it.” or chew out a junior dev for doing something.
But you’re 100% right, it’s completely on the company. If they want to run house that way, and many of them already do, then don’t expect any sympathy from anyone when shit eventually hits the fan. But the fact this dude just did something utilizing AI and special tools that has been happening for years isn’t ground breaking.