ai & the job search w/ engineering leader anna mcdougall
guest: anna mcdougall, engineering manager at hello better
- treat ai tools like any other part of your developer tooling that you need to keep learning and updating
- pick one ai agent or tool and get comfortable with it instead of jumping between many
- nobody needs to panic about falling behind on ai right now since most teams expect this to matter more in a year or two
- in technical interviews let candidates use whatever tools they normally would, including ai, to mimic a real first week on the job
- the real signal in interviews is whether a candidate can explain and justify what the ai helped them build, not just whether they finished the task