A Columbia University student recently shone a light on a disturbing corner of the job market. Roy Lee, 21, was fed up with the antiquated way that large tech firms were testing job candidates using computer coding riddles you had to memorise, so he created a tool that his peers could use to beat the system.
A translucent window shows the latest version of ChatGPT, which the applicant can use to copy and paste code during a test over Zoom. The recruiter can’t see any of this when screen sharing.
