I'm a hiring manager on the product team at Coder, a growth-stage tech company founded in 2017. Everyone on the product team uses LLMs daily.
It's been fun to watch: docs folks fixing SEO issues on the website, engineers writing documentation, PMs building live prototypes, marketers shipping website changes directly. Nobody mandated any of this.
There are plenty of negatives too: layoffs, junior roles drying up, students worried about their careers, and a flood of low-quality generated content everywhere you look. I'm not going to solve those in this post. Instead, I'll share how AI actually affects hiring at one company that uses these tools heavily. If you're a candidate, I hope this helps you see how at least one company is thinking about it. I can assure you that we aren't alone.
Context on how we work
Every company values different things, so here's the environment my perspective comes from. If your values (or your company's) are different, your conclusions probably should be too.
