AI-Era Interviewing

⏱ 3 min read “Eval engineer” went from a niche role at AI labs in 2023 to a named specialty at most AI-shipping companies […] Read article

⏱ 3 min read Job titles like “AI product engineer” or “applied AI engineer” did not exist in 2022. By 2026 they are among Read article

⏱ 3 min read The AI coding tools market in 2026 is a live category. Cursor, Windsurf (formerly Codeium), Continue, Sourcegraph Cody, and others Read article

⏱ 2 min read By 2026, AI models that handle text, images, and audio simultaneously are mainstream. Engineers working on AI features need to Read article

⏱ 6 min read The AI coding assistant landscape in 2026 has matured significantly. The conversation has shifted from “do you use AI tools?” Read article

⏱ 4 min read “How do you decide between RAG, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering?” is one of the most-asked AI/ML interview questions of 2026. Read article

⏱ 3 min read AI agents — autonomous systems that take actions in the world — are one of the hottest interview topics in Read article

⏱ 3 min read “Vibe coding” — the term Andrej Karpathy popularized in early 2025 for writing software primarily by prompting an AI assistant Read article

⏱ 3 min read By 2026, most engineers in tech jobs are reading AI-generated code daily. Either they wrote a prompt and the model Read article

⏱ 5 min read By 2026, AI coding tool fluency is no longer a novelty on a resume, but it is also not a Read article

⏱ 5 min read A small but growing number of companies in 2026 use a voice-mode interview format that goes beyond AI-collaborative coding. The Read article

⏱ 4 min read AI lab internships have become some of the most competitive entry-level opportunities in technology. The labs use internships as a Read article

⏱ 4 min read xAI occupies an unusual position among the major AI labs. Founded in 2023 and tightly integrated with Elon Musk’s other Read article

⏱ 4 min read Cohere is the major North American AI lab focused explicitly on enterprise customers. Headquartered in Toronto with offices in San Read article

⏱ 5 min read The major AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Mistral, xAI, Cohere) are not the only places hiring engineers in the AI Read article