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How Shopify uses AI in tech interviews

The Pragmatic Engineer • 1:00 minutes • Published 2025-07-06 • YouTube

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Hold on. So, you're using AI during your interview process. Yes. Oh, you're not running away from it. No, we're embracing it. Okay. How is it working? Tell me. I love it because what happens now is the AI will sometimes generate pure garbage. So, you're screen sharing and you say, "Let us use that screen sharing. Let them use whatever they want." Here's what I'll say. If they don't use a co-pilot, they usually get creamed by someone who does. So, they will have no choice but use a co-pilot. Sometimes I will shadow an interview and do the questions myself. I've never seen them with a co-pilot and send it to the interviewer and say, "Please mark my assignment as well against a candidate. I've not lost yet." If they don't have a co-pilot, they will lose. But when they do have a co-pilot, I love seeing the generated code because I want to ask them, what do you think? Is this good code? Is this not good code? Are there problems? And I've seen engineers, for example, when there's something very easy to fix. They won't fix it. They will try to prompt to fix it. And I see, are you really an engine? I get the nuance of like just prompt and prompt and prompt, but sometimes it's right there and they will not change the one character. They won't change it. I don't want you to be 100% AI coder. I want you to be like 90 or 95. I want you to be able to go in and look at the code and say, "Oh yeah, there's a line that's wrong. [Music]