In a recent development, Meta has announced that it will let candidates use AI assistants in job interviews, including some coding job applicants.
According to the internal Meta communications, the company has also invited its present employees to participate in a “mock AI-enabled interview.”
Meta’s move signals a broader trend in Silicon Valley, where tech giants are increasingly expecting software engineers to use AI in their jobs.
The company is looking for employees who can effectively collaborate with AI tools, marking a shift in the required skillset for coding roles.
Earlier this month, Meta’s internal message board posted that “Meta is building a new kind of coding interview where candidates get to use an AI assistant. This is more like the environment that our future engineers will be working in, and also makes LLM-based cheating less viable.”
“If you’d like to have a mock AI-assisted interview, please register on the sheet. Questions are still being worked out; feedback from you will influence the future of interviewing at Meta” post Further read.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has explicitly stated it several times during publicly released podcast interviews that he is not only encouraging the company’s software engineers to utilize AI in their work, but he is also anticipating that AI will soon take over the coding world.
Zuckerberg is forecasting that in 2025, AI will be able to match the level of a mid-level engineer who can write code, and allow human engineers to do more creative work.