Ask HN: How do you differentiate with AI coding interviews?
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I haven’t interviewed for a coding job in a while, not since before AI coding was a thing.I’m wondering: if your interview process allows the use of tools like Claude and Codex, how do you differentiate candidates?When I was doing interviews, you would be given some sort of problem statement, and 20 to 50 minutes typically to solve JT. Sometimes you might get a take home problem, or multiple hours to do it. The basic idea was always the same: write some code, and the interviewers judge the quality of your code.There was a lot of debate about the fairness of these processes, but you couldn’t deny that they differentiated candidates. On any problem, some candidates did well and some did bad.
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