How CoderPad Will Use AI in Interviews

As a company, we believe AI will make us better, and we have all of our employees use AI in their jobs. As a result, we want to see how candidates we’re interviewing also use AI to improve their work and outcomes! Therefore:

You may use AI during all interviews, but we require transparency when you are using AI. We want to have a discussion and see how you think.

  • Candidates should expect to be asked about their comfort in using AI and their proficiency with AI tools during their interview process
  • Candidates should expect to be asked to use an AI model of their choice during their interviews – whether on a take-home or during a live interview
  • Candidates can get access to, and can practice using AI tools within the CoderPad environment, which supports all of the leading AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta) by signing up for a free trial. 

We encourage the use of AI in preparation for interviews and take-home projects:

For a sales role – we may ask a candidate to show how they would use AI to assist in prospecting, customer research and messaging. We may use a CoderPad Screen Project to allow candidates to demonstrate their skills as a way to improve the quality and speed of their sales work.

For a Marketing role – we may ask a candidate to complete a project asynchronously and then present it live to a panel, depending on the role. We will use a Screen Project, which will be crafted to be relevant for the role at hand. This project will allow candidates to demonstrate their skills using AI as part of their workflow.

For a Product/Engineering role – we may ask for candidates to complete a project asynchronously, depending on the role. We will use a Screen Project, which will be crafted to be relevant for the role at hand. This project will allow candidates to demonstrate their skills using AI as part of their workflow.

Live interviews:

If you’re interviewing for a Sales role,  we may want you to demonstrate your skills using AI for prospecting or account research, so let’s go into this CoderPad and you can show me how you use AI to help you with prospecting.

If you’re interviewing for a Marketing role, we may want you to demonstrate your skills scaling marketing materials, so let’s go into this CoderPad and you can show me how you use AI to help you with that!

If you’re interviewing for a Product/Engineering role, we will want you to demonstrate your development skills using AI as part of your workflow, so let’s go into this CoderPad and you can show me how you use AI.

However, not every way of using AI will help you succeed. Reading directly from a script, pausing for long periods without context, relying on AI as a teleprompter, accepting every answer out of AI as correct, or being unable to explain your answers with depth and critical thinking can suggest that your AI use still needs improvement and may prevent you from moving forward in the interview process.

Other Ways CoderPad Uses AI in the Interview Process

We believe that AI will make us more efficient and improve the quality of our candidate experience. However, we believe humans should always make decisions and AI is here to assist humans – not to drive the process.

  • We may use AI to assist in creating the questions and scenarios we want to discuss during the interview process.
  • We may use AI to summarize submissions to screening questions or projects.
  • We may use AI to assist in call notes and summarization.
  • We will NOT use AI to make candidate decisions – such as deciding on who will pass to the next stage, who is a good fit for our company, or how a candidate performed during the interview.

Ways Candidates Should Consider Using AI in the Interview Process

We encourage candidates to consider using AI to assist in:

  • Company and interviewer research
  • Prepping questions for each stage of the interview and for preparation on potential questions which you may be asked during the interview
  • Preparation of materials for take-home projects or use in live interviews
  • Taking notes during the interview so you can focus on the conversation rather than typing