Your panel doesn't have a slot for another live coding round. This one doesn't need one.
Candidates code with an AI assistant open, exactly like they do on the job. Every prompt is logged and scored — so you find out who can actually reason through a problem, not who memorized the answer or who can quietly paste from ChatGPT.
Auto-scored, no scheduling, results in your dashboard the moment a candidate submits.
The real problem
It's not that you have too few candidates. It's that your technical round can't tell good ones apart anymore.
Panels don't have another slot to give.
Every open req wants a live technical round, but your senior engineers are already booked on delivery work. Interview slots become the bottleneck, not candidate supply.
Take-homes stopped proving anything.
A candidate can paste a take-home prompt into ChatGPT and submit a correct answer in minutes. A passing score no longer tells you whether they can actually reason through the problem.
Banning AI just hides the real question.
Candidates use AI assistants on the job. An interview process built to detect and block AI use is testing for a constraint that doesn't exist once they're hired.
How it works
One round, no scheduling, a full picture of how they think.
Set the brief
Pick a problem from the library or add your own. Set the language, time limit, and what a strong answer looks like for the role.
Candidate codes with AI open
The candidate gets a real code editor with an AI assistant enabled — the same setup they'd use on the job. No proctoring theater, no locked-down browser.
Every prompt gets logged
Each question the candidate sends the AI is timestamped and tagged — debugging, self-review, conceptual, or overreliance — alongside their code and test runs.
Auto-scored, no live panel needed
You get a score across code quality, reasoning, and AI usage, plus a written evaluation and full session recording — ready the moment they submit.
Why not just ban AI, or run a normal take-home
We stopped trying to catch AI use and started grading it instead.
| Standard technical round | Vibe coding interview | |
|---|---|---|
| When a candidate uses AI | Flagged, blocked, or disqualified | Expected — and scored on judgment, not detected as cheating |
| What you see afterward | A pass/fail score and the final code | Every prompt sent, timestamped and tagged, plus the final code |
| Who has to be in the room | A senior engineer, live, for the full session | No one — auto-graded, results ready on submit |
| What a high score actually means | They got the syntax right, possibly with outside help you can't see | They asked good questions, caught their own bugs, and didn't over-rely on the assistant |
What lands in your dashboard
Not a gut call. A record you can defend to the hiring manager who wasn't there.
Every vibe coding interview produces the same three deliverables automatically — no manual write-up, no waiting on a panelist's notes.
Full session recording
Every keystroke, test run, and AI interaction — reviewers can watch the reasoning process, not just read the final diff.
Written AI evaluation
A narrative report covering code quality, reasoning, and how the candidate used the AI assistant, generated the moment they submit.
Shareable, exportable record
Export as PDF or share a link. The recording and report travel together, so a hiring manager who wasn't in the room still gets the full picture.
Vibe coding interviews, answered.
What is a vibe coding interview?
A vibe coding interview is a technical interview round where the candidate codes with an AI assistant open, the same way they would on the job. Every prompt they send the assistant is logged and tagged alongside their code, so the evaluation covers how they reasoned through the problem and used the AI, not just whether the final output was correct.
How is a vibe coding interview different from the Vibe AI coding assessment?
They use the same underlying format — AI-assisted coding with a full prompt log — but serve different stages. Run it as a standalone assessment from your assessment library, or slot it in as the live technical interview round in a candidate's pipeline. Either way, it's auto-graded and doesn't require a live panelist.
Doesn't letting candidates use AI make the interview easier to game?
It removes the specific way take-homes get gamed today: a candidate quietly pasting the brief into an outside AI tool and submitting the output as their own work. Because the assistant is built into the session and every prompt is logged, you see exactly how much of the solution came from AI and how the candidate directed it, instead of guessing.
Does this replace our technical panel entirely?
It replaces the live coding portion of a technical round — the part that currently requires a senior engineer to sit in for 45-60 minutes per candidate. Your team still reviews the resulting score, transcript, and evaluation report before deciding who advances to a human conversation.
What does a candidate actually experience?
The candidate opens a real code editor with an AI assistant enabled, gets a problem brief and a time limit, and codes normally — asking the assistant questions the way they would at work. There's no proctoring lockdown or AI-detection software running against them.
What score and report do we get afterward?
Each completed session returns a score across code quality, reasoning, and AI usage, a full prompt log tagged by signal type (debugging, self-review, overreliance, and similar), a screen recording of the session, and a written AI evaluation report — all available in your dashboard immediately, and exportable as a shareable PDF.
What languages and roles does this support?
Vibe coding interviews support the same language and role coverage as the platform's AI coding assessment library, so you can set the language, difficulty, and problem to match the role you're hiring for.
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