Meta plans to have job seekers use AI during coding tests

Meta told employees According to internal meta communications seen by 404 Media, some coding job seekers will be able to use AI assistants during the interview process. The company has also asked existing employees to volunteer for “mock AI-enabled interviews,” the message says.

This shows the Silicon Valley giants are urging software engineers to use AI at work, indicating a broader move to hire employees who can bibecode as part of their work.

“AI-enabled interviews – Calls for mock candidates” was a post about the internal meta message board earlier this month. “Meta is developing a new type of coding interview that allows candidates to access AI assistants, which is more representative of the developer environment that future employees are working on and prevents LLM-based fraud from being effective.”

“We need mock candidates,” the post continues. “If you want to experience mock AI-enabled interviews, sign up for this sheet. Questions are still under development. They will help shape the future of interviews in Meta.”

In interviews with many of the hands and public podcasts, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company’s software engineers foresee not only use AI at work, but also manage the “AI coding agents” who write the company’s code.

“This year, maybe 2025, we will be in the meta, as well as other companies that are basically working on this. He told Joe Rogan in January. “As time goes by, there’s a lot of code in the app, and including the AI we generate, is actually built by AI engineers, not people’s engineers.

In April, Zuckerberg expanded this a little Dwarkesh Patel podcasts“In the next 12-18 months, he will reach the point where most of the code that is directed towards (AI) efforts is written by AI,” he said.

It is true that many tech companies are urging software engineers to use AI for their jobs, but it is slower to allow new applicants to use AI during the interview process. In fact, humans who create AI tools Claude are particularly interested in job seekers. AI cannot be used during interview process. To avoid that type of ban, some AI tools promise to allow applicants Secretly use AI during coding interviews. In general, this topic was controversial in Silicon Valley. Established software engineers are worried that the next batch of coders will become more AI “promptors” and “bibe coders” than software engineers, and they may not know how to do it. Troubleshooting AI Writing Code When something goes wrong.

“We clearly focus on using AI to help engineers with their day to day work, so it’s not surprising to test how these tools can be provided to applicants during interviews,” a Meta spokesman told 404 Media.