Yes. Tolan's onsite asks candidates to build a small feature the team has already shipped, in a few hours, with any AI tools they would use at work; Tolan provides a Claude, Codex, Cursor or Gemini licence if needed. A 20 to 30 minute discussion of what was built follows. The candidate owns the output.
- AI in interviews
- Allowed Encouraged onsite, then a debrief
- Where
- A morning onsite in San Francisco, then a debrief.
- What is graded
- Approach, handling of constraints and tradeoffs, questioning an unclear spec, edge cases, knowing when work is not ready, understanding your own code, creativity and judgment.
- Basis
- In the company's own words
What else is known?
The task usually starts from a bare Figma file or a short spec for a flow that would take a day or two to build and ship. In the debrief candidates are asked what they would improve with more time and what they would change before review and before shipping. The post does not say whether transcripts are collected.
When did it change?
- 25 February 2026: Tolan publishes how it hires engineers
Sources
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