How to Hire AI Engineers when EVERYONE is cheating with AI
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Claims that AI recruitment is broken with concrete numbers: Clu raises $5.3M and heads toward $1M ARR, hiring interviews show 93% LeetCode success rates and roughly one in three interviews use AI assistants, and Salesforce reports a 30% productivity boost after AI substitution. Proposes replacing contrived puzzles with workplace simulations where candidates collaborate with AI agents (perfectionist, pragmatist, security expert, junior) to build domain features, showing delegation, ambiguity handling, mentoring, and shipping AI products; cites $20–60K cost for a bad hire.
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- 0:00The crisis in hiring
- 1:23Impact of AI on recruiting
- 2:53Redefining candidate success
- 4:06Implementing new evaluations
- 5:20Adapting to the AI future
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