Managers saw the company's engineers getting more done with the technology, so they needed to ensure new hires could do the same. "We just flipped the script and went, 'OK, we're going to invite you to use AI,'" Brendan Humphreys, Canva's chief technology officer, told Business Insider. The result, he said, has been stronger hires better equipped to wield powerful AI tools to help write code and solve problems.
Jerene Yang, a team lead for synthetic data generation at OpenAI, said on an episode of the "AI Across Borders" podcast published Wednesday that her interview process was "extremely quick, extremely efficient, and very no-nonsense." Yang joined OpenAI's San Francisco office in October 2024. Before OpenAI, she was a senior engineering manager at Google, where she led Cloud Spanner and managed large-scale database systems, according to her LinkedIn profile.
He said that all the interviews he did before Stripe involved a whiteboard and he found these tests impractical. "We believed and believe today that that's actually not a great way of simulating what it's like to see a real engineer do work," Singleton said. "At Stripe, we designed an interview process where folks would actually be on a laptop with all the tools that they were used to having and pair programmers with an interviewer."