How We Hire Engineers When AI Writes Our Code | Tolans.com
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We designed our interview loop from the ground up around AI.
How We Hire Engineers When AI Writes Our Code | Tolans.com Watch the Trailer Download on the App Store Back to all articles How We Hire Engineers When AI Writes Our Code February 25, 2026 by Dan Federman Most technical interview loops are fundamentally flawed. They test your ability to regurgitate algorithms you'll never use on the job, or your recall of whatever API the interviewer thinks you should know by heart. Back when I worked at Airbnb, I fought hard to remove algorithmic questions from our onsite. One particularly egregious interview asked engineers to simulate how water would flow th
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