Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests | WIRED

Mark Zuckerberg has said vibecoding will be a major part of Meta’s engineering work in the near future.

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Meta’s hiring team is rolling out “AI-enabled interviews,” letting some coding candidates use an AI assistant during tests—and even tapping current employees for mock sessions. The idea? Make interviews mirror the future dev environment where vibecoding with AI is standard and make simple LLM cheats moot.

It’s a bold twist—while firms like Anthropic flat-out ban AI in interviews, Meta is betting that mastering AI tools is part of the job. Sure, veteran engineers worry new hires might be pro prompt-engineers, not real bug-slayers, but Meta sees this as just reflecting the everyday workflow it’s pushing across the company.