Meta to allow some job candidates use AI during Interviews, coding tests

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Meta is reportedly developing a new kind of interview process where certain job applicants will be allowed to use AI tools during technical assessments — even for coding tasks. The company confirmed this change to Business Insider and Wired, the latter of which first reported the story citing internal posts viewed by 404 Media.

Traditionally, using AI during interviews has been treated as cheating. But Meta appears to be shifting gears, aligning its hiring process with how it expects developers to actually work on the job, in collaboration with AI systems. “This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in,” Meta said internally. It also added that giving candidates access to AI tools makes large language model (LLM)-based cheating tactics less effective.

As part of testing this approach, Meta is said to have invited employees to volunteer as mock candidates in an “AI-enabled interview,” according to Wired.

AI Coders

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been vocal about his belief that AI will eventually be capable of writing a large portion of software. He’s previously said that while he won’t force engineers to use AI, the goal is for humans to supervise AI agents that handle most of the coding.

In Zuckerberg’s view, future engineers will focus less on writing code manually and more on managing the AI systems doing the work, a shift that could allow people to experiment and pursue unconventional or “crazy” ideas.

Despite Meta’s forward-looking stance, other tech companies remain cautious. Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI, has banned AI usage during its own hiring processes.