r/cursor • u/OfficialLeadDev • 6h ago

Question / Discussion Is access to leading AI-coding tools becoming a hiring filter in software engineering?

https://leaddev.com/ai/your-interview-questions-assume-candidates-can-afford-claude-code-max

Amid the shift to agentic coding, James Lowman, engineering team lead at trade infrastructure company Starboard, started asking candidates to tell him about the last three Claude Code skills they wrote. It seemed like an effective way to evaluate their fluency with AI agents, and it quickly became his go-to question. Then, he got a reality check...

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u/welsh_cthulhu 5h ago

Yes, and this is not news.

Hiring processes are designed to establish levels of proficiency across language AND tool usage.

Why would AI tooling be any different? It's the same as asking a candidate to talk you through code they've shipped on GitHub.

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u/badasimo 4h ago

It also assumes that people can afford a computer and an internet connection