Recruiter round — they sent me an AI link, about 15 minutes. Going in, it was an AI with a really fast speaking speed, roughly like watching a normal video at 1.5x. This position wasn't really a match for my direction, so I answered kind of randomly.
- This position requires using Go, Java, Spark, Elasticsearch to build distributed systems — talk about your project experience with these
- How do you weigh xx against xx (some backend-service terminology, it talked too fast for me to react), then it followed up with another question, how do you achieve availability, maintainability, and scalability (something like these words), anyway the question was pretty vague
- How do you use metrics, logs, xx, yy... several terms, to analyze a production root cause
- If there's a recurring bug, how would you handle it to keep it from happening again
Overall feeling: the AI talked really fast, the questions were long, and after it finished asking there was almost no time to think or react — it basically expected you to answer right away, otherwise it might decide you couldn't answer and skip to the next question.
The recruiter's email said if you don't want to do the AI screening, they can arrange a traditional screening instead. If you have the choice, I'd recommend avoiding the AI interview. I actually found out I'd applied to a role that wasn't a match for me, and then wanted to try out the AI interview experience, so I never reached out to switch to a real person.
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