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The first round of your next job interview may not have a human in it.
This week HackerRank, the coding-test company used by more than 3,000 employers including Amazon and Nvidia, opened its AI interviewer, Chakra, to all customers. It already ran more than 500,000 interviews during a six-month test, with companies like Snowflake and Capgemini, TechCrunch reports.
And it’s not just tech. In a Greenhouse survey of nearly 3,000 job seekers in five countries this spring, 63% said they had already faced an AI interview.
What the AI interview actually is
Chakra rolls three steps of a tech hiring process into one sitting: the recruiter screen, the take-home test, and the interview with an engineer. The candidate works on a realistic task, and the AI asks follow-up questions about how they’re approaching it and why.
The twist: you’re allowed, even expected, to use AI while you do it. Chakra scores what it calls “AI fluency”: how well you describe the problem to an AI assistant, judge what it gives back, and steer it to a good answer. HackerRank’s CEO, Vivek Ravisankar, explained the reasoning: “Now, because of AI, anybody can produce an artifact.” So the test is how you think, not just whether the code runs.
A side effect: with AI allowed in the open, HackerRank says flags for suspicious activity dropped 70 to 80% compared with its traditional tests. People stopped sneaking it.
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What candidates are saying
Not great things, yet. In the Greenhouse survey, 70% said they weren’t clearly told up front that an AI would evaluate them, 38% had walked away from a hiring process because of an AI interview, and only 21% believe employers use AI responsibly. The most common ask: the option to talk to a human instead.
HackerRank says a person still makes the final hiring decision. The AI handles the structured part.
What it means for you
Ask up front. If you get an interview invite, ask whether an AI will run or score it, and what it measures. You’re entitled to know, and in New York City, AI hiring tools must pass a yearly bias audit.
Think out loud. These tools score your reasoning, not just the answer. Explain what you’re doing and why.
Practice working with AI, not hiding it. If AI is allowed, use it well: give it clear instructions and check its work.
If you’re hiring, tell candidates. Disclosure is the single biggest thing candidates say they want.
The bigger picture
For years, the fear was that AI would help people cheat on interviews. Now the interview assumes you’ll use AI and grades how well you do it. That’s probably where a lot of jobs are headed too.
On the site: the sources behind every number, and a copy-paste prompt that runs a practice AI interview for the job you want.
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