Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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In this session, Akash Jain (Senior Engineering Manager at Webflow) and Sargun Kaur (Founder and CEO of Byteboard) share insights on improving the technical interview process in a post-AI world. They discuss the limitations of traditional LeetCode-style interviews, propose project-based, context-rich interview tasks, and the importance of open book assessments.
They suggest ways to embrace chatGPT tools for interviews rather than fighting and demonstrate how these changes have resulted in efficient and objective hiring, saved time, and eliminated problematic bias in interview processes.

-- Learn more about Byteboard here: https://byteboard.dev/

00:00 Introduction and Background
00:57 The Problem with Traditional Technical Interviews
05:21 The Impact of AI Tools on Hiring and Technical Interviewing
08:23 Revamping the Interview Process at Webflow
20:30 The Impact and Early results
24:21 Q&A

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This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engineering leadership conference hosted in San Francisco on Nov 7 and 8 2023.