Coding Interviews Should Evaluate AI Collaboration
There are still lots and lots of organizations treating LLM usage during coding interviews as cheating. I think that needs to change. If you expect your engineers to work with AI, your hiring process should evaluate how effectively candidates work with AI. That is becoming part of the job. This is still far from standard practice. In CoderPad’s 2026 survey, 34% of surveyed hiring leaders said AI was not allowed in interviews and assessments. That is a vendor survey, so I would not treat it as a precise measurement of the entire industry. But it gives us an idea of the disagreement. ...