Equity In The Preparation Of Students For Software Engineering Coding Interviews: ChatGPT as a Mock Interviewer

There exists structural inequities in the tech industry's software engineering interview ecosystem. These inequities are often simply ways of doing business that have perpetuated a gap between those who have access and privilege and those who don't. This gap may not be the result of deliberate bias but they are systematically disadvantageous and may exclude people by race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status. This experience report discusses identified issues of equity in the software engineering interviewing technical interview process and how Large Language Models like ChatGPT are being used to address these gaps.