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Google is tightening its hiring process in response to widespread AI usage, with CEO Sundar Pichai announcing the return of in-person interviews for technical roles such as engineering and programming.

Google Brings Back In-Person Interviews to Curb AI Cheating in Technical Hiring

The move comes because many candidates have been caught using AI tools during virtual coding challenges, making it difficult for recruiters to accurately assess their real skills.

Pichai stated, “We are making sure (that) with the advent of AI, we still hire people who have strong computer science fundamentals and can do the job well.”

He confirmed that Google will “definitely introduce at least one round” of in-person interviews for all technical positions.

Reports indicate that in some virtual technical interviews, more than half of candidates are suspected of cheating with AI, using off-camera tools to solve coding problems.

This has created strong internal demand at Google to reinstate face-to-face rounds where candidates’ abilities can be evaluated in real time.

Other major companies are also addressing AI- cheating in recruitment:

• Amazon now requires candidates to sign a formal agreement pledging not to use unauthorized AI tools.
• Anthropic has completely banned AI use in applications.
• Cisco and McKinsey have reintroduced on-site interview rounds.
• Deloitte has already reinstated in-person interviews for its UK graduate program.

Although remote hiring saves time and money, the integrity of recruitment is at risk, and companies like Google now prioritize ensuring candidates have solid fundamentals over speed in the hiring process.

Job seekers should be aware that while there is a decline in the overall demand for tech jobs, there are increasing opportunities in fields like cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

Brendon Bernard, senior economist at Indeed, said, “Many positions are losing steam,” urging professionals to rethink their career paths.

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The job market is changing dramatically due to trends in automation.

Automation is one of the main causes of the decline of traditional roles, but there isn’t just one.

As businesses adopt new technologies and security requirements, strategic roles like data scientists, cloud architects, cybersecurity analysts, and AI and machine learning engineers are becoming more and more important.