Meta will let some job candidates use AI in their coding interviews
Meta is, at least in some cases. The company is going to start allowing candidates to use an AI assistant in coding interviews.
404 Media's Jason Koebler first reported the news, which Meta has confirmed to Business Insider.
A post on the company's internal message board from earlier this month publicized "AI-Enabled Interviews."
"Meta is developing a new type of coding interview in which candidates have access to an AI assistant," the post read. "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 also said Meta is seeking "mock candidates" among its current employees to test out this interview process.
"The questions are still in development; data from you will help shape the future of interviewing at Meta," it said.
"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," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to BI.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has talked about AI's impact on coding before.
"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 sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code," he said on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in January.
Meta's stance on candidates' use of AI in job interviews breaks from that of its Big Tech peers. Amazon, for example, recently instructed internal recruiters to disqualify job applicants who are found to have used an AI tool in an interview. AI research lab Anthropic initially told job applicants not to use AI assistants during the job application process before reversing course.
Meta also plans to start using AI in its recruitment processes, specifically to automate tasks like testing coding skills and devising question prompts, according to an internal document obtained by BI.
"Like many other companies, we're using AI to make recruiting more efficient and match candidates with open roles more quickly," a Meta spokesperson told BI at the time. "Humans talking to humans will always be part of the interview process, that remains unchanged."
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