What AI tools can we use for interviewing in Tech?
I want to know what kind of interview questions can be asked for a Product or Engineering positions at specific companies so I can prepare for them, both for technical and behavioral rounds.
Is there an AI tool that would help us do that?
If not, this might be a good idea for Taro to put on their roadmap :)
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3 months agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course HeroDue to NDA, the availability of training data for interviews is pretty low. This makes it really tough for an LLM to have enough information to reasonably role-play as an interviewer from a specific company. We looked into building a full AI-powered mock interviewer, but it just wasn't feasible. We know some other companies who tried, and they failed as well.
If you have the questions on hand though, I have found that ChatGPT is pretty decent to talk to. It's actually not bad with system design. But of course, doing mocks with another human being is 2x better at least.
Something we have on our roadmap for the job board is to scrape all the available interview data from websites like Glassdoor and use an LLM to summarize it. So imagine you go to a job posting for Google and you can find an interview summary of the types of rounds alongside the most common questions.
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3 months agoThoughtful TarodactylTaro CommunityThat sounds super interesting and I'd love to use it! Curious if it is possible to get in trouble for building something like that given that glassdoor doesnt allow scraping info on their website and giving it away for (free?)
- 03 months agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
There's a 75% chance Glassdoor just blocks our scraper, so this feature might indeed never come to fruition 🥲
- 03 months agoThoughtful TarodactylTaro Community
I think IP blocking is not much of a concern, if you wait between requests + use proxy rotation. There's tons of companies that provide those services.
My main concern is can glassdoor tell you to stop (i.e. they send cease and desist) bc it obv harms them? Or is it like super unlikely
I ask because I was looking into scraping ratemyprof reviews (input class and get best prof + reviews summarized) for building a side project but I was a bit worried about the ethics/getting in trouble for scraping - 03 months agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
My main concern is can glassdoor tell you to stop bc it obv harms them?
Probably. But at that point, we've become big enough to get noticed by Glassdoor so that's a good problem to have 🤔
