Every candidate you’re interviewing has been coached by ChatGPT.

That changes everything about how you should be interviewing. Is your process still giving you signal — or just measuring AI prep quality?

Here’s the uncomfortable reality: behavioral interview frameworks like STAR were designed for a world where candidates answered off the cuff. That world no longer exists.

Most candidates heading into your interviews have fed your job description and likely your company’s Glassdoor reviews into ChatGPT and walked out with a rehearsed, polished, perfectly structured answer to every question you could possibly ask.

That doesn’t make them bad candidates. It makes your behavioral questions unreliable signals.

The hiring teams I’m seeing adapt the fastest have made one core shift: they’ve moved from “tell me about a time” to “here’s a real situation — what would you do?” Real-time problem scenarios, not rehearsable narratives.

It’s a small change with a significant signal improvement.