AI is changing developer interviews—for better and worse. Take-home tests are becoming obsolete. CVs can’t be fully trusted. Even live interviews falter as AI helps candidates craft responses. To stay ahead of these changes, we must decide when to encourage AI in interviews, and when to limit it.
It’s time to give live coding interviews another chance—and to invite AI to the table.
Our guest, Anna J McDougall, shares a new method for structuring multi-stage technical interviews that closely mirror real-world scenarios, balancing realistic expectations, useful insights, and equitable testing conditions. This includes live pair programming with the freedom to use tools like Google, GPT, Copilot, or Cursor—evaluating how they use AI as part of a modern developer’s toolbox.
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About Our Guest:
Name: Anna J McDougall
What she does: Anna is an award-winning engineering leader, TEDx speaker, and author of the Amazon bestselling career guide “You Belong in Tech”. As a Software Engineering Manager at HelloBetter, Anna and her team have successfully implemented these interview methods, cutting hiring timelines while improving candidate quality and team satisfaction.