TLDR; used chatGPT to get a director level job before it was cool.
Back in March 2023, chat GPT was known and mainstream enough but hadn’t quiet broken into the corporate world yet (at least not in my country)
I work for a pretty large organisation and had been in my manager level job for about a year. Some director level jobs opened up and I wanted to apply (no harm in doing so and wanted to get experience in the application process). I got feedback from a number of people and used chat GPT to incorporate all of that back into my application and got it to make my CV sound more professional.
My application had made it to the interview stage which surprised me but I did put in a fair bit of time on the app even without chat GPT so that was alright.
I got the email explaining the interview format, virtual interview for 1 hour, 4 questions across project management/people management, etc.. but I would have access the the questions 10 mins before the interview. You can guess where this is going..
I setup my webcam on my computer, put ChatGPT on a laptop in front of my computer screen. Wireless keyboard on my lap. I basically set it up so that it looked like I was looking my webcam even when I was typing/reading off my laptop screen. I can type without looking at my keyboard and I can confidently fill in my answers from my head as I was typing to chat GPT. I ran all 4 questions through chatGPT before the interview and read through the answers. I basically answered 90% of all of the questions word for word from chat GPT.
As I was an internal candidate, further rounds of interview were not conducted. I now have a job which puts me in the 95th percentile of salary earners in my country… thanks to GPT 3 or 3.5 at the time. A lot of the people that gave me feedback, and even I, was surprised I got the job.
While the way I got the job feels unethical, I am actually pretty decent at the job – and others have told me that I am better than some people that have been in the job for way longer than me. Not much point to this story except that i wanted to tell someone and I can’t tell anyone in real life. Application/interview processes now days try to detect/filter out applicants using AI now so not really repeatable
