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Meta has begun trialing AI-assisted technical interviews for software engineering candidates, inviting employees to participate in mock sessions that reflect real-world developer workflows.
The firm has all but confirmed the move, saying: “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,” said a Meta spokesperson.
An internal message seen by 404 Media, titled "AI-Enabled Interviews - Call for Mock Candidates", said: “Meta is developing a new type of coding interview in which candidates have access to an AI assistant. This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in, and also makes LLM-based cheating less effective.”
According to internal communications, Meta is actively seeking volunteers from within the company to take part in the mock sessions. “We need mock candidates,” the message continued. “If you would like to experience a mock AI-enabled interview, please sign up in this sheet. The questions are still in development; data from you will help shape the future of interviewing at Meta.”
Future of coding at Meta
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has previously been vocal about the role of AI in engineering at the company. “I think this year, 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 mid-level engineer that you have at your company that can write code,” he said earlier this year.
“Over time we’ll get to a point where a lot of the code in our apps and including the AI that we generate is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers,” Zuckerberg said. “In the future people are going to be so much more creative, and they’re going to be freed up to do kind of crazy things.”
In a separate quote, Zuckerberg said: “Sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we’ll reach the point where most of the code that’s going towards [AI] efforts is written by AI.”
Hiring shift may raise questions
While tech companies are encouraging AI use in daily engineering tasks, most have held off on permitting applicants to rely on AI during interviews. Anthropic, developer of the Claude AI tool, has told applicants not to use AI during assessments.
Despite that, some AI tools now market themselves as ways to secretly deploy AI in coding interviews, raising industry concerns. There is ongoing debate about whether future hires will be true engineers or simply effective AI “prompters” and “vibecoders.”
