Bengaluru, Feb. 15 -- The resume of a back-end developer shortlisted by a Bengaluru-based fintech startup looked nearly perfect on paper. The candidate's profile, with keywords such as "distributed systems, microservices, AWS," passed the initial screening.

In the early interviews, the candidate sailed through the basic, definition-based questions. But as the screening levels got more complex, cracks began to appear. The candidate panicked when the interviewers asked him to walk through decisions in a live scenario. He also showed a lack of basic knowledge in systems he claimed to have built. Eventually, the candidate admitted he had used an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to manipulate his resume in order to appear more role-aligned....