It depends on the company, and at some companies on the round. This page lists what each one has said or what candidates report, with a link to where it comes from. Sources last checked on October 10, 2026.
Policies change and recruiters are told the current one. Whatever this page says, ask yours which tools are allowed in each round before the day.
Backend, frontend and machine learning candidates are expected to use AI tools in technical interviews.
Canva announced this on its engineering blog in June 2025, naming Copilot, Cursor and Claude as examples. The post says candidates are still assessed on fundamentals and have to own and explain any code they submit, whoever wrote it.
One coding round in the onsite is reported to be a 60-minute AI-enabled round with an assistant built into the editor.
Candidates and prep sites report that Meta began piloting this round in October 2025 and that it replaces one of the two coding rounds. The assistant is the one inside the interview environment; your own tools are not used. Reports disagree on which models are offered. We could not find a public Meta document describing the round, so confirm with your recruiter.
A code comprehension round with Gemini as the assistant is being piloted on some US teams. Other coding rounds stay AI-free.
Reports say the pilot covers junior and mid-level roles on selected US teams, and that candidates read an existing codebase, fix a bug and extend it with Gemini available. The standard algorithm rounds and the phone screen are reported as unchanged, with no AI allowed. Most of the detail comes from career-centre and prep-site write-ups, so ask your recruiter whether your loop includes the pilot.
Pair-programming rounds are reported to allow your own AI tools when the recruiter confirms it. Accounts differ.
Prep guides describe candidates working in their own editor over screen share with the AI tools they normally use. At least one candidate reports being stopped from asking a model about the problem itself. We could not find a public Shopify statement, so ask before the round.
Generative AI tools are not allowed during live interviews unless explicitly permitted, and using them can disqualify you.
Internal recruiter guidance reported in 2025 tells candidates not to use generative AI in interviews unless told they may. An Amazon spokesperson told GeekWire that candidates acknowledge they will not use unauthorized tools during interviews or assessments. The same reporting says some online assessments are written with the expectation that candidates may use AI, so read the instructions on yours.
No AI assistance in live interviews or take-home assessments unless told otherwise. Using AI to prepare is encouraged.
Anthropic publishes its guidance for candidates. It asks you to draft your own application and use Claude to refine it, to do take-home work without Claude unless the instructions say otherwise, and to do live interviews without AI assistance unless told otherwise. It encourages using Claude to research the company and practice.
Where AI is allowed, you are graded on how you use it: what you ask for, whether you check the output, and whether you catch its mistakes. Where it is banned, the round is the classic one and you need to be able to do it unaided. Placed has a track for each.
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