Is using AI in job interviews fraud? That's not the case if the company is okay with that.
Meta, at least in some cases. The company will enable candidates to use AI assistants in coding interviews.
404 Media's Jason Koebler first reported the news. This was confirmed by Meta with Business Insider.
Posts on the company's internal message board since the beginning of this month have been published as “AI-enabled interviews.”
“Meta is developing a new type of coding interview that allows candidates to access AI assistants,” the post read. “This is more representative of the developer environment that future employees will tackle, and reduces the effectiveness of LLM-based fraud.”
According to the post, Meta said he is testing the interview process in search of “mock candidates” among current employees.
“The questions are still under development. Data from you will help shape the future of interviews in the meta,” it said.
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“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 said in a statement to BI.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the impact of previous AI on coding.
“Maybe in 2025, we'll have AI that can effectively become the kind of mid-level engineer you have in a company that can write code, like meta.”
Meta's attitude towards the use of AI candidates in job interviews has broken from that of its major high-tech peers. For example, Amazon recently instructed internal recruiters to disqualify job seekers who were found to have used AI tools in interviews. AI Research Lab Anthropic first instructed job seekers not to use AI assistants during the recruitment process before reversing the course.
Additionally, according to internal documents obtained by BI, Meta will begin using AI in the recruitment process.
“Like many other companies, we use AI to make recruitment more efficient and match candidates in open roles more quickly,” a Meta spokesperson told BI at the time. “People talking to humans have always been part of the interview process and that remains the same.”
