AI Lab vs FAANG Interview: A 2026 Comparison
4 min read The AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Mistral, xAI, Cohere) and FAANG (Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft) compete for the same […] Read article
4 min read The AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Mistral, xAI, Cohere) and FAANG (Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft) compete for the same […] Read article
5 min read A new interview format started showing up in 2025 and has spread through 2026. The pattern: the interviewer, the candidate, Read article
6 min read The take-home assignment in 2026 sits in a gray zone. Most explicit instructions about AI tool use are either nonexistent Read article
5 min read OpenAI’s interview process in 2026 is harder to summarize than most companies’ because the process varies meaningfully by team. Research Read article
6 min read Anthropic is the company that, more than any other, formalized the AI-collaborative coding interview. The reason is structural: the company Read article
6 min read In AI-permitted coding interviews, the AI rarely produces a fully correct first draft. The bugs are usually subtle: an off-by-one, Read article
5 min read This is a living document tracking which tech companies allow AI coding assistants during their technical interview rounds, which prohibit Read article
6 min read The tech interview that worked in 2022 is broken in 2026. The reason is simple: the engineer who shows up Read article
6 min read In an AI-permitted coding interview, the rubric shifts. The interviewer is not grading the code (the AI can produce code); Read article
5 min read “How would you weigh a 747?” This is one of the cleaner brainteasers in the Microsoft canon — cleaner because, Read article
5 min read “You have been shrunk to the size of a pencil and dropped into a blender. The blades will start spinning Read article
7 min read Three system design problems anchor the modern interview canon: Design Twitter (or a news feed system), Design a URL Shortener Read article
5 min read You have an array where each element is a non-negative integer. Starting at index 0, the value at index i Read article
6 min read Design a data structure with two operations: get(key) — return the value if the key exists, else -1. put(key, value) Read article
6 min read Given a 2D grid of letters and a list of words, find all words from the list that appear in Read article