{"id":1008520,"date":"2026-05-18T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008520"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:49:20","slug":"google-to-candidates-for-software-engineering-jobs-you-can-use-ai-as-the-company-wants-to-make-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/google-to-candidates-for-software-engineering-jobs-you-can-use-ai-as-the-company-wants-to-make-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to candidates for software engineering jobs: You can use AI, as the company wants to make sure &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is reportedly piloting a new interview format for software engineering candidates which enables them to use an AI assistant during technical rounds, as reported by Business Insider. This new move of the tech giant reflects how deeply AI has reshaped the role of software developers and aims to make hiring more aligned with the \u2018modern engineering landscape\u2019. As per the BI report starting in the second half of the year, candidates applying for junior to mid-level engineering roles will be permitted to use Google\u2019s own Gemini AI during the \u2018code comprehension\u2019 round. In this stage, applicants will be asked to read, debug and also optimise an existing codebase. Interviewers will also evaluate \u2018AI fluency\u2019, including prompt engineering, output validation and debugging skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is reportedly piloting a new interview format for software engineering candidates which enables them to use an AI assistant during technical rounds, as reported by Business Insider. This new move of the tech giant reflects how deeply AI has reshaped the role of software developers and aims to make hiring more aligned with the \u2018modern engineering landscape\u2019. As per the BI report starting in the second half of the year, candidates applying for junior to mid-level engineering roles will be permitted to use Google\u2019s own Gemini AI during the \u2018code comprehension\u2019 round. In this stage, applicants will be asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}