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Quotations: 77
Organizations: 18
Practice interviews: 8
Sources checked: Nov 11, 2026

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Every source

Microsoft

With agents, we can now macro delegate and micro steer. In other words, we define a goal and the system works on our behalf, returning for direction and judgment when needed.Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft. Microsoft 2026 Annual Report: shareholder letter, Oct 14, 2026.
Interviewers want to see how you break down information and navigate through problems. We also want to learn more about how you think, how you put yourself in the customer’s shoes, and how you make choices.Microsoft Careers, Hiring tips: Technical interviewing. Technical interviewing | Microsoft Careers, Undated.
What are the boundaries and error conditions?Microsoft, Technical interview guidance. Technical interviews, Undated.
Security and quality are non-negotiable.Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. Recommitting to our why, what, and how, Jul 24, 2025.

Amazon

AI is changing the work of software engineering both more quickly and more fundamentally than these previous trends. What it means to be a software engineer, and what software engineering even is, is changing quickly and durably.Terk Terkowitz, VP and Distinguished Engineer, Worldwide Amazon Stores, for Amazon’s engineering leadership. An update from Amazon engineering leadership on the role of the developer in the age of AI, Oct 27, 2026.

GitLab

A useful software change includes generation, environment setup, context, verification, review, remediation and governance. AI is collapsing the generation term, which makes everything else proportionally more important.Bill Staples, Chief Executive Officer, GitLab. When code is abundant, Aug 24, 2026.
You're welcome to research using AI, but you must cite them and provide answers in your own words that reflect your original synthesis and perspective.GitLab Talent Acquisition, Jobs page: Using AI in the interview process. Using AI in the interview process, Undated.
We encourage you to dedicate up to an hour to review it, approaching it much like you would any contribution to a project.GitLab Handbook, Hiring handbook: Technical Interviews. Technical Interviews | The GitLab Handbook, Undated.
how well you collaborate with a member of the team.GitLab, Technical interview handbook. Technical Interviews, Undated.

Stack Overflow

Developers are historically a highly skeptical group, and over the last year, as AI agents become rapidly more autonomous, that skepticism now acts as a critical safeguardPrashanth Chandrasekar, Chief Executive Officer, Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow’s 2026 Developer Survey Reveals Positive Sentiment Towards AI — but Trust Remains Conditional, Oct 6, 2026.

JetBrains

As agents take on more of the execution, the bottleneck shifts from producing change to understanding, verifying, and owning it. Code becomes cheaper to generate but more expensive to verify.Kirill Skrygan, Chief Executive Officer, JetBrains. JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development, Sep 22, 2026.

Thoughtworks

Engineering rigor does not disappear when AI generates code. It relocates and becomes more important than ever.Rachel Laycock, Chief Technology Officer, Thoughtworks. Why AI is relocating engineering work and what leaders need to know, Undated.

IBM

If you can do 30% more code with the same number of people, are you going to get more code written or less?Arvind Krishna, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM. AI and quantum computing: How IBM showed up at SXSW 2025, Mar 15, 2025.

Monzo

As part of your submission, we recommend submitting a README file describing your program structure, how to get it up and running, and any trade-offs you’ve made during development.Monzo engineering (Monzo blog), Blog post: Demystifying the Backend Engineering interview process. Demystifying the Backend Engineering interview process, Mar 1, 2025.
During the review call, we’ll walk through your code, discuss the choice of language, the design of your implementation, data structures used and performance considerations.Monzo engineering (Monzo blog), Blog post: Demystifying the Backend Engineering interview process. Demystifying the Backend Engineering interview process, Mar 1, 2025.
Having a few notes to support you is fine, but please do not use AI live in the interview. It breaks the connection and prevents us from getting to know you!Harriet Jackson and Mehmet Yilmaz, Technical Recruiters, Monzo (Monzo blog). The ultimate guide on using AI to ace an interview at Monzo, Jul 30, 2024.

Sonar

But you should be able to walk us through the logic, explain the tradeoffs, spot the edge cases, and debug it if we ask.Sonar, A guide for candidates: Using AI in our interview process. Sonar AI Use Guidelines for Interviewing, Undated.
Whether you wrote something yourself or with AI assistance, we expect you to understand it, defend it, and take responsibility for its quality.Sonar, A guide for candidates: Using AI in our interview process. Sonar AI Use Guidelines for Interviewing, Undated.

Assembled

Strong engineers don't blindly trust AI output but rather methodically evaluate, debug, and verify the generated solutions.John Wang, Co-Founder and CTO, Assembled (engineering blog). How we learned to stop worrying and love the AI (in coding interviews), Apr 8, 2025.

Cerebras

Do they inspect generated code rather than trusting it automatically? Can they explain, change, and debug the result?Sebastian Duerr and Hagay Lupesko, Cerebras blog authors (Member of Technical Staff; SVP of Engineering). Hiring Engineers for an AI-Native World, Jul 9, 2026.

Shopify

We also want to know how you might have done things differently. Our interviewers are also engineers and want to hear specific technical details.Ashley Sawatsky, Shopify Engineering blog author. Shopify’s Technical Interview Process: What to Expect and How to Prepare, Jul 7, 2022.

Atlassian

How you describe what you’ve done tells us a lot about what it might be like to work together.Atlassian Careers, Candidate Resource Hub: Atlassian engineering interview handbook. Atlassian Engineering Interview Guide, Undated.
We want to see your approach to trade-offs like verbosity versus optimization.Atlassian, Engineering interview handbook. Atlassian engineering interview handbook, Undated.

Wealthsimple

If something is unclear, make a reasonable assumption and state it explicitly.Wealthsimple Careers, AI Builders program page (FAQ). Wealthsimple AI Builders, Undated.

Canva

Critically reviewed and improved AI-generated codeSimon Newton, Author, Canva Engineering. Yes, You Can Use AI in Our Interviews. In fact, we insist, Jun 11, 2025.
Can they ensure AI-generated solutions meet production standards?Simon Newton, Author, Canva Engineering. Yes, You Can Use AI in Our Interviews. In fact, we insist, Jun 11, 2025.

Anthropic

We didn't remove review.Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang, Authors, Claude Code engineering article. How the Claude Code team does code review, Oct 15, 2026.
Build shared context and codebase understanding across the teamAddy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang, Authors, Claude Code engineering article. How the Claude Code team does code review, Oct 15, 2026.
This is all you–no AI assistance unless we indicate otherwise.Anthropic, Candidate AI guidance. How to collaborate with Claude during our hiring process, Undated.
Verification is how agents check their work before responding.Delba de Oliveira, Author, Claude developer guidance. Building verification loops in Claude Code with skills, Jul 22, 2026.