18 companies with a documented position on AI in engineering interviews, from their own pages, press reports or interview prep sites. Read the basis column: a prep site's account of a format is weaker evidence than a company's own words. Every source was checked on 18 October 2026. Expected: 4; Allowed: 4; Optional: 1; Pilot: 1; Not allowed: 4; Depends on stage: 1; Not stated: 3.
| Company | AI in interviews | Where it applies | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Not allowedNot allowed unless permitted | All interviews, unless explicitly permitted. | Reported by the press |
| Anthropic | Not allowedNot allowed unless stated | Application materials: draft yourself, then refine with Claude. Take homes and live interviews: no AI unless stated. | In the company's own words |
| Canva | ExpectedRequired in the AI assisted round | The AI Assisted Coding interview, which replaces the computer science fundamentals screen for backend and frontend roles. | In the company's own words |
| Cisco | Depends on stageIn person checks, AI workflow exercises | Some in person stages; project based exercises in AI enabled workflows, per Business Insider. | Reported by the press |
| Cursor | Not allowedNot in the first technical screen | First technical screens: no AI beyond autocomplete. The two day onsite: not stated. | Reported by the press |
| Deloitte UK | Not allowedNot allowed | Online assessments and all interviews, in person or virtual. | Company page plus press reports |
| PilotPilot from the second half of 2026 | A code comprehension round, in a pilot for junior and mid level roles on select US teams. | Reported by the press | |
| Linear | Not statedNot stated | A paid work trial of two to five days, the final stage for every role. | In the company's own words |
| McKinsey | Not statedNot stated; some rounds in person | Some interviews in person. | Reported by the press |
| Meta | AllowedAllowed in one onsite round | One of two onsite coding rounds, for Software Engineer and Engineering Manager loops up to E7 and M2. | Reported by interview prep sites |
| PostHog | Not statedNot stated | The SuperDay is the final, required stage. | In the company's own words |
| Rippling | OptionalOptional, with its own rubric | The guide does not tie the rule to particular rounds. | Reported by interview prep sites |
| Rootly | ExpectedExpected, with transcripts submitted | The take home: a small Rails app with a Slack bot and a web interface for managing incidents. | In the company's own words |
| Shopify | AllowedEncouraged | Remote coding interviews. Directors and above also do a coding interview, run as pairing. | Reported by the press |
| Speak | ExpectedExpected on an open take home | The take home project. | Reported by the press |
| Superhuman | AllowedUsed live, prompts watched | The technical round, for a forward deployed engineering team. | Reported by the press |
| Tolan | AllowedEncouraged onsite, then a debrief | A morning onsite in San Francisco, then a debrief. | In the company's own words |
| Zapier | ExpectedObserved live in skills tests | Skills tests, plus the application, the first screen and an executive interview. | In the company's own words |
How was this list made?
From research into how engineering hiring changed in 2025 and 2026, then each company's sources opened again on 18 October 2026. A company is listed only when a named source describes its position. Nothing is inferred from what a company sells. Companies whose position we could only find in unverified posts, such as OpenAI's reported team by team rules, are left out.
Policies change, and companies can run different rules for different teams, levels and countries. Ask your recruiter which rounds allow AI and which tools, and treat that answer as the one that counts.
Sources
- Hello Interview: guide to Meta's AI enabled coding round
- 404 Media: Meta plans to let candidates use AI in coding tests
- interviewing.io: survey of 67 interviewers on how AI changed interviews
- Moneywise on Yahoo Finance, reporting Business Insider: Google's AI assisted interview pilot
- Computerworld: companies bring back in person interviews to counter AI cheating
- ITPro, reporting Business Insider: Amazon's guidance on AI tools in interviews
- Anthropic: guidance on candidates' use of AI
- Anthropic Engineering: Tristan Hume on redesigning the performance take home
- Canva Engineering Blog: Simon Newton on AI in Canva's interviews
- The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: Shopify's Farhan Thawar on AI and hiring
- interviewing.io: guide to Rippling's interview process
- Rootly blog: Quentin Rousseau on take homes reviewed through AI transcripts
- Business Insider, republished by AOL: inside Cursor's hiring
- PostHog handbook: the hiring process and the SuperDay
- Linear: how Linear hires, by Doug Parker
- LeadDev: Speak, Superhuman and Stack Overflow on hiring for judgment
- OECD AI incident record listing the Axios and Wall Street Journal reports
- Business Insider, republished by DNYUZ: tech firms, in person interviews and AI
- Deloitte UK early careers: integrity guidance for candidates
- HR Leader: Deloitte UK brings back face to face interviews
- Tolan: Dan Federman on how Tolan hires engineers
- Zapier blog: raising the AI fluency bar in hiring
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