No, unless a recruiter says otherwise. Internal guidance reported by Business Insider, and covered by ITPro in March 2025, tells candidates not to use generative AI tools in interviews unless explicitly permitted, and warns that breaking the rule can mean disqualification. Interviewers are told to watch for signs such as reading answers.
- AI in interviews
- Not allowed Not allowed unless permitted
- Where
- All interviews, unless explicitly permitted.
- What is graded
- Amazon describes outside AI help as an unfair advantage that stops it judging a candidate's own skill.
- Basis
- Reported by the press
What else is known?
The reported guidance tells recruiters to look for typing while a question is being asked, answers that sound read rather than spoken, and eyes that wander off screen. It was prompted, according to the report, by a video in which an AI company showed its coding tool being used in an Amazon interview.
We found no public Amazon page with this wording, so the rule is known through press reports of internal documents. If your recruiter permits a tool for a specific exercise, that permission is the one that counts.
When did it change?
- 14 March 2025: ITPro reports the guidance first covered by Business Insider
Sources
- ITPro, reporting Business Insider: Amazon's guidance on AI tools in interviews
- interviewing.io: survey of 67 interviewers on how AI changed interviews
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