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Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI

I just got off a one of the most surreal video calls of my life - a live video call with a candidate who was interviewing to become an L3 software engineer at Kapwing, our online video editing startup. The interview started extremely well - the candidate seemed like a

Our interview process at Kapwing starts with internally reviewing submitted resumes, and if a candidate seems to have relevant experiences, we invite them to a 30 minute phone screen with a member of our team. Sam described how, during a client visit while demo testing the app, they noticed that there was a spike in the server load caused by the application triggering too many SMS notifications. Sam started to explain that that the day care might have had a class of thirty or so students, but if the teacher would send SMS notifications to all the parents at once, then the Twilio API might rate limit the request.

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