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Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?

1 points by parthdesai ↗ HN
As the title suggests, how has your company adapted interview process, especially for Software Engineers in the AI world.

Also, do you know of companies that have updated it?

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unified101
I'm seeing lower salaries, and work sample on actual codebase consistently happening. Also here an ex employee wanting to come back at just above half their previous pay.

Does not bode well for candidates.

ravshan
By simply not hiring software developers. I am not really sure whether it is due to AI or just a coincidence.
floro
That would be due to the shit economy globally. People make excuses that it's AI replacing jobs, but that's delusional. Its very rough and none of our clients have any money
Tryvrsakjo10
I think it the amalgamation of an ailing global economy, AI and clients not having cash. The number of layoffs due to AI is ghastly and absurd, firms use AI to pick potential employees and then again due to AI I think many tech firms are just not hiring developers that much.
floro
It's not due to AI. As I've said before
dormento
I know that yc by virtue of being a startup incubator has a noticeable pro-AI bias, and this naturally influences hn as well.

That said, there's definitely some influence, and not only on development. Teams are shrinking not only due to the economy, there's a real pressure to deliver more with less, and AI has raised expectations all around.

- (hw) Hardware issues can be debugged and worked around by an amateur (like yours truly) at home, meaning you no longed need to pay to fix lots of things yourself;

- (dev) refactoring and rewrites are not as expensive as before, meaning no need for dedicated teams and processes, and _some_ businesses (not all) chose to turn that into budget optimization ("doing the same work with less team", instead of "doing more work with the same team")

- (media) you can generate a decent 1 minute SaaS landing page product video for 20 bucks and and openRouter key, meaning less need to rely on or shop for specialized marketing/media service.

And the list just goes on an on. We're in the big pressure cooker of history as usual, but this is one of those occasions where the temperature is rising really fast due to AI and the further commoditization of a lot of workflows that were career specialties yesterday.

hackermailman
Only thing that changed where I am is if you have any formal methods experience you get called first. Otherwise interviews are the same more or less with more emphasis on reading code and being asked is there a more optimized approach and then seeing if the candidate invalidates the cache. You'll probably still get hired if you do it once but after being told something and you do it again then nope.