Glossary

The vocabulary of AI-era technical hiring.

Short, plain definitions of the terms recruiters and hiring managers meet when AI enters the interview: what each one means, why it matters, and how to do it well.

AI fluency

How well an engineer works with an AI assistant: asking, checking and recovering when it is wrong.

AI interview

An interview conducted by an AI that asks questions, follows up, and produces an assessment for a person to review.

AI resume screening

Reading each resume against the role with AI, so every applicant is considered and the reasons can be checked.

Technical screening

The first check of an engineer's skills, before the team spends interview hours on them.

Structured interview

Same questions, same criteria, same scoring for every candidate for a role.

Coding assessment

Any test of a candidate's ability to write working code, from quizzes to real projects.

Live coding interview

A candidate writes code in real time while an interviewer watches and asks questions.

Take-home assignment

A project the candidate completes on their own time and submits for review.

Prompt quality

How specific, well-contextualised and efficient a candidate's requests to an AI assistant are.

AI over-reliance

Accepting AI-generated code without reading or testing it.

Interview scorecard

A written record of how a candidate did against each criterion, round by round.

Human-in-the-loop hiring

AI assesses and recommends; a named person reviews the evidence and decides.

Automated employment decision tool (AEDT)

NYC Local Law 144's term for software that substantially assists hiring decisions with a score or ranking.

Bias audit

An independent check of whether a hiring tool selects people at different rates by sex or race.

AI-assisted coding interview

A coding interview where the candidate works with an AI assistant and the assessment covers how they use it.

Interview transcript

A written record of what was said in an interview, used as evidence for the write-up.

Run one role end to end. Judge it yourself.

Paste a job description, approve the plan, and share the apply link. The AI assesses. A person decides.

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