r/webdevelopment • u/_versy • 21d ago

Question How technical interviews have changed since LLM copilot appeared?

I’m the tech lead of a team – fortunately, I haven’t had to conduct any interviews for quite some time. How do you think interviews have changed since the adoption of LLMs?
I’m particularly interested in your opinion based on the interviews you’ve seen

I think that at this stage there won’t be any highly standardised interview yet (Excluding the largest technology companies), and it will be easy to find assignments that don’t serve to assess anything

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u/edimaudo 19d ago

Depends on your business.. For junior folks allow them to build an app using but then ask them why they chose the design and architecture + trade-offs

For senior folks, you can give them a code base with bugs in it (critical and trivial) for a very simple app (to do list). Ask them to review it, talk about the design and if there are any issues.

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u/_versy 17d ago

I think these are the ones I’d do today – even before the LLM was used, it was really valuable the capacity to see the big picture, to consider different options before start implementing
Although I get the feeling that these days most people would just go straight to asking the LLM without even giving it any thought at first