Kogan.com engineering team explains their updated interview policy that explicitly allows and encourages candidates to use AI tools like Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot during coding interviews. The rationale is that modern engineering work relies on AI, so banning it during interviews measures the wrong skills. Instead of testing memorization, they evaluate judgment: how candidates use AI as a tool, spot bad suggestions, debug AI output, and understand the code they ship. Candidates who blindly trust AI output without understanding it will be penalized, while those who apply critical thinking on top of AI assistance are valued.
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