AI-Era Interviewing

⏱ 5 min read The system design interview was one of the most stable interview formats for over a decade. The format — the […] Read article

⏱ 5 min read For about fifteen years, the standard coding interview was a LeetCode-medium problem on a whiteboard or shared editor. The format 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

⏱ 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

⏱ 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

⏱ 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

⏱ 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 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

⏱ 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

⏱ 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 In an AI-permitted coding interview, the rubric shifts. The interviewer is not grading the code (the AI can produce code); Read article