Meta to Allow AI Tools in Interviews Amid Tech Hiring Shift

• Meta plans to let coding candidates use AI tools during interviews.
• Internal memo invites employees to mock AI-enabled interview trials.
• The goal is to simulate real developer environments and reduce LLM misuse.

Meta intends to allow coding candidates to utilize an AI assistant during their interviews, as reported by 404 Media. The report states that it has viewed the internal memo from the company in which the Facebook-parent urged its current employees to participate in a “mock AI-enabled interview”.

A recent internal announcement named “AI-Enabled Interviews—Call for Mock Candidates” indicates that the company is evaluating this revised format to more accurately simulate real work scenarios.

“Meta is developing a new type of coding interview in which candidates have access to an AI assistant. This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in, and also makes LLM-based cheating less effective,” the post stated.

“We need mock candidates,” the post continued, adding, “If you would like to experience a mock AI-enabled interview, please sign up in this sheet. The questions are still in development; data from you will help shape the future of interviewing at Meta.”

Confirming the update, a Meta spokesperson told 404 Media, “We’re obviously focused on using AI to help engineers with their day-to-day work, so it should be no surprise that we’re testing how to provide these tools to applicants during interviews”.

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In a past episode of the Joe Rogan podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that he envisions humans overseeing 'AI coding agents' that will develop code for the organization. “I think this year, probably in 2025, we at Meta as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code,” Zuckerberg said in January.

“Over time we’ll get to a point where a lot of the code in our apps and including the AI that we generate is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers … In the future people are going to be so much more creative, and they’re going to be freed up to do kind of crazy things.”