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by Shraddha Sunil and Mudit Saraf
June 8, 2026
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Summary.<br>Generative AI is rapidly undermining the reliability of traditional hiring signals, making it easier for candidates to manufacture polished résumés and perform convincingly in remote...more<br>Leer en españolLer em português
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For decades, corporate hiring has favored candidates who could present a flawless résumé and deliver highly structured answers to interview questions. Today, generative AI is making it easier for applicants to do those things, whether they have the underlying competence or not. Put another way, the ability to perform well in interviews is becoming infinitely scalable and practically free. For anyone involved in recruiting, that’s a problem.
Shraddha Sunil is an engineer at Microsoft on the Azure Local team. She previously built large-scale distributed systems at Amazon. She is a cofounder of MeetGinger, a company that builds software for interview screening.
Mudit Saraf is an engineer at Meta Reality Labs, where he builds AI experiences for Ray-Ban Meta glasses. He was previously an engineering lead at IPSY. He is a cofounder of MeetGinger, a company that builds software for interview screening.
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