{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T18:49:26.943Z","source":{"name":"Hacker News public API","url":"https://github.com/HackerNews/API","attribution":"Stories and comments are public Hacker News submissions by their respective authors. HackerHub is an independent reader, not affiliated with Y Combinator.","content_is_untrusted":true},"story":{"id":50461853,"type":"story","title":"Ask HN: What do your technical interviews look like today? (Nov 2026)","url":null,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461853","hackerhub_url":"https://hackerhub.site/stories/50461853","author":"Heap4112","points":7,"comments_count":3,"created_at":"2026-11-12T01:34:14.000Z","average_comments_per_hour":0.1738768037442116,"heat":null,"text":"General callout to ask about the state of the standard (if there is even such a thing) of SWE technical interview. Also rough headcount to provide context if able :)\nWe may be past the point of leetcode challenges, but now different companies have different levels of acceptance for AI assistance.\nOne data point talked about technical interviews where a candidate was interrupted and asked to lean on the LLM more.\nSome companies have shied away from AI and any indication or disclosure of AI assistance is a red flag.\nOther companies continue to test coding abiltiy as a baseline expectation and do allow LLMs purely for boilerplate or autocomplete.\nFollow up: does your company's AI guidelines for interview candidates align with the guidelines for employees?"},"heat_definition":"Average comments per hour since posting, using a minimum age of 30 minutes. A single story has no relative colour rank."}