- META TESTS INTERNAL AI-ASSISTED INTERVIEWS FOR DEVELOPMENTS
- It is a closer reflection of the real world’s developer environments
- Much of Meta’s code will soon be written to
Meta is reportedly testing AI-activated coding interviews where it will allow candidates to use AI tools.
For the time being, it seems that the company could recruit internal employees as volunteers to Mock interviews to help it develop the form and format of them, with the initiative revealed through internal communication and verified by 404 Media.
The reality is AI assistants, and agents now form part of most workers’ workflows – especially developers – so that allowing them within the interview stage reflects closer to the real working environment.
“Meta is developing a new type of coding interview where candidates have access to an AI assistant,” the post reads.
“This is more representative of the developer environment in which our future employees will work, and also makes LLM-based cheating less effective.”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg already believes that AI could eventually write most of Meta’s app and AI code, ultimately ends up as medium-sized engineers as soon as this year and free people to focus on more creative tasks. It is a similar story with Microsoft and Google-to-companies that claim about a third of the new code is AI-generated.
However, Meta’s approach to AI-assisted interviews marks a different direction than other companies in space. Anthropic is currently prohibiting AI use during interviews, which presumably seeks real working talent that can be further improved by AI.
The advantage of AI-generated code is that it can be produced much faster than human generated code, but its accuracy is highly dependent on the quality of the prompt and thorough review is essential.
“We are obviously focused on using AI to help engineers with their daily work, so it should be no surprise that we test how to provide these tools to applicants during interviews,” added a meta spokesman.
