Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know The question changed. When anyone can generate working code in seconds, interviews shifted from "can you produce code" to "can you judge code" — read it, critique it, catch the subtle bug, and defend the trade-off. There are now five round types. The AI-off live round (fundamentals), the decaying take-home, the rising AI-assisted round, system design with an LLM-product lens, and the behavioural ownership round. The AI-assisted round is the new differentiator. Interviewers watch what you prompt, what you accept, and — most of all — what you catch and reject. The fastest rejection is accepting a plausible-but-wrong suggestion without reading it. Fundamentals still matter. The AI-off round has not gone away. You still need to reason about data structures, complexity…
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