“I Feel Like A Total Fraud”: Person Gets Hired For A High-Paying Job After Using AI During Interview

The reason this person feels like a fraud is because that is exactly what they are. They are a fraud. Oh, and the financial regulators would like a word with the bank regarding trustworthness and probity in your recruitment procedures.

Mindblowing how people are okay with it. All I am seeing is red.

lol that last reply "you'll be fine unless you're a surgeon"

I believe this is going to be the norm. As a college teacher, AI is going to be replacing working and thinking in my students very soon, if it hasn't already. If they're going to cheat their way through school, they won't have any choice but to cheat their way through interviews and jobs, and the amount of competent people doing anything will face a sharp decline. Now go watch "Idiocracy."

Everyone needs to learn how to fit in into a new job and I doubt OP'd gotten through with outright lies. I've been on the other side of the table in such interviews and I can confidently tell that a person who's that resourceful and quick in typing and reading is far more qualified to fit in quickly than someone who might have the slightly embellished qualifications but took years ro get them and can't improvise on the spot with every resources they have on hand. I'm pretty sure they've checked references and the basics panned out. Embellishment on the qualifications is normal and to be expected. And then, every job is different. Different programs to use, different processes to learn, heck, even if the company uses the same programs than the last one there's no guarantee that it'll work the same way and is used the same way (looking at you, Salesforce!). As long as OP is a good and steady worker they'll pick up what's needed and no one will be any wiser a few months later.

People who interview well aren't always the best employees. Interviewing is a skill. Sometimes people who panic in interviews can be the best employees. An interview is a moment in time. Obviously, using a program to answer well on the spot is not a good idea. Either he will quickly learn or he will be let go.

People get crappier by the day, all of this encouragement for someone who is probably taking the spot if someone actually qualified. People are so weird. It takes one sheep to jump on the train and the rest follow.

I literally know hundreds of people who's careers started by fudging what they knew. My best friend's mom went to work for a company right out of high school and lied about honors math so they put her in accounting. Her sister graduated HS the next year and went to college to be a CPA. She ended up in the same department working under my friend's mom, her sister, 6 years later. This is not a new tactic to get a job.

Man this whole thing between the original post and the comments reads like it's the "Anti-work" subreddit. Like why would you endorse this kind of behavior, I'm all for not liking most companies and employers but at the same time this doesn't just affect the company it affects people. Think about the people who are currently working in that same position, they are hiring to fill a slot to take some of the workload off of them, then here this person comes into a roll they aren't experienced in, wasting time for everyone else there. They need to get that person set up, train them, get them familiar with the job, that takes time. Then when they find out the person isn't qualified at all to be doing the job and lied, they fire them and then all that time spent by the coworkers training then went to waste. That's incredibly selfish because it's not just "oh it's a business and they don't care about you and they will just replace you anyway" it's affecting the other normal people at that job

It depends on what questions they used the ai for. Maybe it one of those questions where you have to say you are the biggest extrovert, you like teamwork, you're always organised, bank work is your passion since 7 yrs old, you manage 108 hobbies daily and you don't go to work for money, but because you like doing it. If OP has the education and experience needed to work in a bank, they just lied the same way everyone else does, but just used better tools

Employers want solutions, and don't really care if it is your own, or You saw it online (if it's legal)

Eh, we all fake it till we make it. Good on you. Just do a good job now that you've got it.

I think it's basically a wash. OP used technology to level up quickly- how many times has technology screwed over the worker? Plenty. Time it went the other way. Also to those saying she screwed over someone who "deserved" the job, you don't know what the criteria were. Maybe they hired her not because of her chatgpt answers but because she was a great match for their culture. Also so many unqualified people get hired in place of actual qualified people that this scenario really is no different. If she can end up doing the job then none of this matters anyway. If she can't then the "qualified" person will get hired anyway.

I'm going to be honest, that is bleeping brilliant! For someone like me who freezes up under pressure, that would be a game changer.

For those that are really getting really pissed off about this use of AI... that's unfortunately how the world works. In the early 2000s, if you could google faster and better than everyone else, you could get a job with a consulting firm that paid you to Google answers. And today, everyone googles. Back in the 2000s, people were getting jumped up saying that Google won't replace subject matter experts. It hasn't, but for base level knowledge, Google takes you pretty far. AI is the technological equvilent of Google in the 2000s. You can hate on it all you want, but it won't change the fact that the world is shifting again.

Rut Ro. Stay away from banking if you don't know what you're doing.

ChatGPT was the reason probably in the first place you got the interview. You are simply using the same tool. There is nothing to feel bad about that. The technology is available for everyone, not just the big boys. Feeling bad about it could negatively affect your performance, so don't. You have the same rights as the recruiters.