Assessment design
Hiring full-stack engineers who work with AI.
For senior full-stack roles: define the experience you need and explore judgment, ownership and priorities when candidates work with AI.
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Notes on
engineering hiring.
Practical guides to assessing engineers who work with AI.
Junior hiring
Assessing junior engineers who work with AI.
Start with language and framework fundamentals, a small practical task and how the candidate learns with support.
Read articleBefore you hire
Hire for the role you actually need.
Reflect on the first three months, the work that needs doing and the expectations you set during interviews.
Read articleWho to hire
The engineer I’d hire for work with AI.
Look for evidence of learning, ownership and delegation. A familiar name on a CV won’t answer those questions.
Read articleEngineering practice
When AI writes more code, how should you review it?
Type checks, complexity limits, file-size ratchets and drift detection: practical guardrails with code examples.
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Eight questions for a better engineering interview.
Explore a candidate’s contribution, AI judgment and priorities, with specific follow-ups for each question.
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A 30-minute interview built around their assessment.
Use a candidate’s submission to explore their decisions, test assumptions and choose useful follow-ups.
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Work out what your assessment should test.
Turn your team’s daily work into a focused brief, with an AI planning partner and a prompt to try.
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Practise the interview. Before the candidate joins.
Rehearse with an AI sparring partner and get feedback on the questions you ask.
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Questions for the decisions behind the code.
Explore scoping, architecture, AI direction and verification. Adapt the questions to your role.
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The assessment that changed how I interview.
A candidate pasted the whole brief into Replit. The submission made me rethink what an assessment should reveal.
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