Crossover subsidiaries nowadays feels even more like a scam, as every position is being listed as AI First Something even if the Something is a position that would barely require AI to be successful. You do some tests and after, if you get selected, you get to talk a manager to before you get an offer. My interview with the hiring manager for AI First Software Engineer was horrible: they kept asking me how I use AI for my current job, forgetting that most companies still have plenty of compliance rules that forbid you to openly use AI for anything, and gets disatisfied after I say I cannot use it much at my and I personally think that AI still has many flaws and sometimes can quicken up the resolution of a task, but in many others you have to debug the output code which makes it detrimental. Then, they passed me a test in a Github link to find where to optimize a code which had one initial query in the data base and N others more inside a following loop. I said the problem was that it was querying the database inside every loop iteration instead of querying with join in the first iteration. They said it was right, then asked me what is the name of this algorithm. I said I did not know, which they replied "N+1" (it didn't make any sense, but I accepted his POV as I wanted to finish the interview ASAP). After the first test, they asked me to model a directory class just like the file directories in the OS, but they didn't give any link to a coding platform and said for me to do it in my IDE. This was totally unexpected since they did not inform I should have an IDE installed on my computer (you could even enter the zoom interview with your phone), and I replied I would have used one on-line since my computer was new and, as I was mostly working on average 11 - 12h / day nowadays, I was only using my personal computer for leisure. I modeled the class and, finally, before finishing the interview, they let me ask some questions. I asked about their average workday, and found it to be utterly boring since the way the manager describe how their team works was mostly by having no interaction with anyone and to install every AI tool as possible to find a magical way to solve your tasks without much thought, and the manager also mentioned how their team is working also on weekends recently (which is surprising for a company that only requires 40h/week of work). The manager also mentioned how sometimes they try a new AI tool which makes their task solving takes much longer just for the sake of trying new AI tools, and also mentioned how it is a necessity when you work for Crossover you have to install software to monitor your screen, your mouse movements, your keyboard inputs and to take pictures of you at every X minutes. After hearing that, I just said "thank you for your time", smiled, and ended the interview.