For our coding interviews we encourage people to use whatever tools they want. Cursor, Claude, none, doesn’t matter.

What I’m looking for is strong thinking and problem solving. Sometimes someone uses AI to sort of parallelize their brain, and I’m impressed. Others show me their aptitude without any advanced tools at all.

What I can’t stand is the lazy AI candidates. People who I know can code, asking Claude to write a function that does something completely trivial and then saying literally nothing in the 30 seconds that it “thinks”. They’re just not trying. They’re not leveraging anything, they’re outsourcing. It’s just so sad to set how quickly people are to be lazy, to me it’s like ordering food delivery from the place under your building.