Why AI Interviews?

If you’re wondering why this workshop exists, or if you’ve encountered skeptics who think using AI in interviews is “cheating,” read on.

The short answer, AI isn’t going to kill software engineering jobs. It’s going to change what they look like. Writing code by hand all day is over. But driving the software development process end to end, shipping something correct, and then maintaining, enhancing, and monitoring it? That’s still very much a job. Companies like Canva and Meta already let candidates use AI in technical interviews because they’ve realized the real skill was never typing code from memory.

This workshop trains you for that reality.

But Shouldn’t You Just Have Them Practice LeetCode?

If you think using AI is cheating, or that we should be having students solely grind LeetCode, I address that head-on here: But Isn’t Using AI Cheating? That section is part of a longer piece I wrote on the topic: Times Are Changing: Coding Is Dead, Software Engineering Isn’t.