Meta to allow candidates to allow use AI during interviews, how this shows big Silicon Valley trend
Meta is planning to allow coding candidates to use an AI assistant during interviews, reports 404 media. The publication claims to have seen the company’s internal memo where the Facebook-parent told its existing employees to volunteer for a “mock AI-enabled interview”. According to a recent internal post titled “AI-Enabled Interviews—Call for Mock Candidates,” the company is testing this updated format to better reflect real work situations. “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.”
Meta confirms it is testing AI-enabled interviews
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”.Previously, in a Joe Rogan podcast Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he foresees humans managing ‘AI coding agents’ who will write codes for the company. “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.”
