Production Ownership Assessment

Rethinking the technical interview for the AI era

AI did not break technical interviews. Static questions did. These pieces lay out why detection and proctoring are dead ends, and what to test instead.

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You cannot detect your way out of AI-assisted candidates

The detection arms race is unwinnable. A better technical screen does not need to win it.

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Proctoring is the wrong answer to a real problem

Surveillance treats every candidate as a suspect. Scoring content instead of behaviour is both fairer and sharper.

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Polished answers are cheap. Lived experience has texture.

The static-question interview assumed good answers were scarce. They are not anymore. Here is what to test instead.

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We do not ban AI. We test the judgment it requires.

The job will involve AI. So should the interview. The skill to test is judgment, not abstinence.

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