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Why Traditional Live Coding Interviews Don't Scale
Human interviews offer depth but become slow, expensive, and inconsistent at scale. Here is why companies are rethinking them.
Live coding interviews were designed for depth, but they rely heavily on limited interviewer capacity. As hiring volume grows, scheduling overhead and interviewer fatigue quickly become bottlenecks.
Even experienced interviewers can vary in questioning style, depth, and scoring calibration. That creates uneven candidate experiences and makes it harder for teams to compare signals fairly across a pipeline.
Modern hiring teams are shifting toward structured AI-supported interview flows that preserve technical depth while removing coordination drag. The result is faster pre-screening, more consistent scoring, and better use of senior engineering time.