Ask HN: How do we even technical interview anymore?

3 jdwyah 0 6/26/2025, 5:40:26 PM
I've done 100s of interviews over the years. But haven't been doing any for the past 3.

But now we're scaling, so need to figure out how to do a technical interview again. But... man, all my technical interview methods feel obsolete / inadequate. Seems pretty silly to not let a candidate use Cursor/Claude when I would 100% be expecting them to use it every day. But also if we just vibe something together it'll be darn hard to figure out what they actually know.

Looking for a process for mid to sr level.

Anybody feel like they've figured this out yet?

- "Take a look at this PR / codebase" doesn't age well, because "claude make me a powerpoint that ELI5s this codebase" is better.

- Simple coding puzzle was never very good, but at least showed they could type. All of this is just LLM fodder now, do I really care?

- Complex system debug / comprehension type questions are always hit-or-miss in my experience. I feel like any setup I do to make a tough to solve problem will be trivial for Claude, so doesn't feel authentic either.

- System design at ~whiteboard still feels reasonable / CS basics.

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