McKinsey & Company will have some entry-level candidates for business-analyst roles complete a 10-minute conversation with an AI-simulated client as part of its interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The simulation is meant to reflect about 80% of scenarios consultants typically face, not to stress-test applicants with extreme behavior, and human interviewers—not the AI—will evaluate performance. The pilot runs this fall in select North American offices and could involve hundreds of undergraduate applicants.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-14
A TikTok user posting as The Dreadful Studio recorded himself answering an AI avatar's interview questions for a management role entirely in made-up, nonsensical speech. The bot grew visibly irritated, calling the responses a waste of its time, declaring him unqualified, and ending the call.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-08
A 2004 Q&A featuring author Neal Stephenson is being recirculated, in which he responds to reader questions with characteristic humor. The exchange covers his writing habits and views on technology and fiction, delivered in a wry, self-deprecating tone.
slashdot.org
· 2026-09-28
A hiring manager who says they have conducted more than a thousand interviews describes a practice of ending each session by offering the candidate direct, opinionated feedback rather than leaving the exchange one-sided. They ask permission first, then detail both strengths and concerns, and invite other interviewers on the panel to do the same, turning the interview into a two-way conversation.
mgrebler.substack.com
· 2026-09-27
Security firm Nisos ran a sting on a suspected North Korean operative who applied for a remote AI engineering job, sending a surveilled laptop to a US 'laptop farm' in Florida. Over subsequent months Nisos tracked the operator communicating with 22 others and four US-based facilitators while connecting from near the North Korea-China border. A joint advisory from US, Japan, Australia and Germany law enforcement says the broader campaign, called WaterPlum or Contagious Interview, has infected over 30,000 devices in 100+ countries and drained more than 7,000 crypto wallets.
darkreading.com
· 2026-09-25
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS he sees no chance of a catastrophic AI scenario unfolding by 2030, calling some AI industry leaders' warnings irresponsible and unnecessarily frightening to the public. He suggested that frontier AI labs pushing for new regulations may be doing so to sidestep accountability under existing laws.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-22
A workplace analysis highlights that managers evaluate five specific behavioral traits before promoting employees, arguing that these matter more than technical performance alone. The piece cites Satya Nadella's Microsoft interview, where he was asked an emotional-intelligence question about a crying baby rather than a technical problem, to illustrate how soft skills factor into hiring and advancement decisions.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-21
A joint advisory from law enforcement in Japan, the US, Australia and Germany says the North Korean-linked group WaterPlum infected over 30,000 devices across more than 100 countries between December 2025 and July 2026. The hackers drained more than 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets and moved over $10.7 million worth of crypto assets to North Korea, using fake job interviews and malicious code disguised as coding tests or software projects to infect victims.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-19
Director Neil Jordan is reflecting on his 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice's novel, which she personally wrote the screenplay for. The film starred Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst and became a landmark entry in vampire cinema.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-17
An executive coach writing for Entrepreneur says accomplished leaders often lose out on jobs not because of weak qualifications but because they interview the same way they lead. One key example cited is executives deflecting credit to their teams using 'we' language, which leaves interviewers unable to gauge individual impact.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-15
A developer built and released a free tool for practicing technical interview questions, including real problems sourced from companies like Google, after finding existing paid interview prep services unaffordable. The tool lets users try problems like 'Two Sum' immediately without requiring signup.
learningto.co
· 2026-09-10
Satirical creator Graham Zip tested an AI-powered job interview avatar named 'Dana Whitfield' by responding with strings of random, meaningless words instead of real answers. The chatbot failed to recognize the nonsense, instead confidently paraphrasing and affirming the gibberish as if it were coherent professional experience.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-05
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