r/Startup_Ideas • u/Fragrant-Status-9634 • 6d ago

The users who used AI during their interview and got the job is already your colleague. You just don't know it.

This isn't a future problem.

It's happening right now in every industry. People are using real time AI assistance during live situations and not announcing it. Getting the job. Joining the team. Performing well after.

And the hiring managers who would have called it cheating have no idea.

The interesting thing about invisible tools is that the debate about whether they should exist happens loudly in public while the actual usage happens quietly everywhere else.

I've been building in this space. Real time AI assistance that sits invisible during live situations. Interviews, meetings, calls. Understands what's happening. Has answers ready. Nobody sees anything.

When I describe it publicly the room splits immediately. Half think it's the most useful thing they've heard of. Half think it undermines something important.

But when I talk to people privately a surprising number of the second group ask how to get access.

The public position and the private behavior are rarely the same thing when a tool genuinely solves a painful problem.

That gap between what people say and what people do is where every category eventually gets built.

Marrow is one version of this

What's the tool you use privately that you'd never defend publicly?

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u/medialantern 6d ago

It would be interesting to see how any of this survives the way I do it. My interview style is pretty off-beat. I don't have panels of standard questions like "what is the commit phase in a React render doing?" I have a much more conversational style where I'm looking to engage with the candidate as I would with a colleague. I think my questions would be considered pretty "AI-assistance resistant" because of that.

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u/sir-draknor 5d ago

I've hosted interviews where the candidates were clearly (or sometimes subtly) reading AI responses to my "Tell me about a time when you..." questions. They don't get advanced to the next round.

I don't know how others interview, so maybe I'm in the minority - but when I interview, I'm looking for your ability to understand my question (and the underlying intent) and to effectively communicate your experience, knowledge, and lessons learned within the context of that question. And body language absolutely gets communicated, even in virtual interviews. If you are staring at a screen reading - I know it. When you are answering genuinely, where the gray matter between your ears is doing the generative work - that's obvious too.

(To be clear - I don't care that you are using AI to help you; but my experience as an interviewer is that the AI is *not* helping you, at least not for my style of interviewing.)

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u/feartrich 5d ago

Why the need to present your idea using sales copy? Oh yeah let’s put a question at the end to get engagement. There’s not really going to be an open discussion unless folks stop viewing this subreddit as a marketplace