AI-Era Interviewing

⏱ 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 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

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

⏱ 2 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

⏱ 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

⏱ 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

⏱ 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