AI-Era Interviewing

⏱ 5 min read Which companies allow AI tools in interviews in 2026, which ban them, and exactly what to say when an interviewer asks how you use Copilot, Cursor, or Claude. Read article

⏱ 5 min read A clear-eyed look at how tech interviews changed by 2026 — AI tool rules, a tougher market with more rounds, AI-resistant coding questions, and system design pushed down to mid-level. Read article

⏱ 4 min read “AI is allowed during this interview” is a sentence more candidates hear in 2026 than in 2022 ever imagined. The Read article

⏱ 8 min read The “I built X with AI” portfolio is now a standard interview artifact for senior candidates. Hiring managers look at Read article

⏱ 7 min read TL;DR — There’s no single best AI coding assistant in 2026; the right pick depends on your workflow. Cursor and Windsurf Read article

⏱ 3 min read “AI robotics” became one of the most-discussed venture sectors in 2024–2025 with billions invested in humanoid and embodied-AI companies. By Read article

⏱ 3 min read Many of the strongest classic ML engineers in 2026 are weighing whether to stay in their current specialty (ranking, recsys, Read article

⏱ 3 min read “AI safety engineer” is a 2026 specialty that did not exist as a job title in 2020. The work spans Read article

⏱ 4 min read “AI wrapper” became a 2024 pejorative for products that are mostly an LLM call wrapped in a UI. By 2026 Read article

⏱ 4 min read Senior engineering interviews in 2026 surface a real tradeoff that did not exist in 2022: the candidate with 15 years Read article

⏱ 3 min read Take-home assignments have always been controversial — pre-AI, the complaint was time investment; post-AI, the complaint is “how do you Read article

⏱ 3 min read “AI inference engineer” is one of the highest-comp specialties in 2026 — the engineers who make GPUs go fast in Read article

⏱ 3 min read The widely-circulated reports of $1M+, $5M+, even $10M+ AI compensation packages are real but uncommon. Understanding which roles command this Read article

⏱ 3 min read “Post-training” (the work of taking a pretrained model and aligning it for instruction-following, helpfulness, and safety) has emerged as one Read article

⏱ 3 min read Behavioral interviews looked the same in 2018 and 2022. They no longer look the same in 2026. The widespread adoption Read article