Writing code isn't part of the job now, so it shouldn't be part of the interview either. Who's found a better way?
Whose interview process has caught up to the new way of working?
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#2I just call and talk to a candidate one call that’s it
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#3The better way existed before AI existed. Take-home tasks were always poor attempts to find a measure for technical ability. Pairing exercises or live problem-solving tasks were, and still are, vastly more effective. If your team uses AI for those challenges on the job, then the people you interview should too.
The measure should always be the quality of a solution a candidate produces in response to a problem, not how they got to the solution. If you want to dive into the 'how' then what you're actually measuring is communication, something AI is still pretty bad at.
Re: Whose interview process has caught up to the new way of working?
#4The better way existed before AI existed. Take-home tasks were always poor attempts to find a measure for technical ability. Pairing exercises or live problem-solving tasks were, and still are, vastly more effective. If your team uses AI for those challenges on the job, then the people you interview should too. The measure should always be the quality of a solution a candidate produces in response to a problem, not h…
I am curious about how the companies that claim their devs never wrote or reviewed a line of code in the last 6+ months react to this... they basically would have to just judge how the candidate writes a prompt or gathers the information to write it
Re: Whose interview process has caught up to the new way of working?
#5The better way existed before AI existed. Take-home tasks were always poor attempts to find a measure for technical ability. Pairing exercises or live problem-solving tasks were, and still are, vastly more effective. If your team uses AI for those challenges on the job, then the people you interview should too. The measure should always be the quality of a solution a candidate produces in response to a problem, not h…
I am curious about how the companies that claim their devs never wrote or reviewed a line of code in the last 6+ months react to this... they basically would have to just judge how the candidate writes a prompt or gathers the information to write it
I think that's a reasonable part of the assessment but the focus is primarily on the candidates understanding of the output and essentially their ability to QA the output.
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#6Many companies already found a better way - they stopped interviewing. You don't need to interview anyone because there aren't any jobs available.
If there happen to be any open roles typically they are not advertised and filled via internal referral from a senior employee... for a senior candidate. Interview is more of a formality at that point.
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#7Surely any company hiring a developer in Q3 2026 hasn't caught up to the new way of working anyway...?
Pre-2026 you needed someone who could write code to build software. That person isn't needed anymore. Now you need someone with a good product sense and enough soft-technical skills to be able to use AI to do that. This is the person the company should be hiring.
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#9At my job interviews are essentially rejection practice. The debriefings are these cringe sessions where everyone pretends to be better than the candidate, makes fun of them for being old, for their attire, for how they talk, it’s so so bad. Like high school. This is a well known company in San Francisco!
Every single screen is a “No” even when I’ve strongly recommended the candidate. I don’t believe we are really hiring anyone.
I have 2-3 of these interviews per week, been that way since Day 1 at this job for several months now.
Idk if they do it to keep us worried or what but it’s very toxic.