​🎯 About This Session

​Join us for an eye-opening session where David Gomes reveals how his team at Neon (now part of Databricks) completely reimagined their technical interview process after discovering their candidates were using AI coding assistants. Instead of fighting against this trend, they embraced it – creating what might be one of the first explicitly AI-powered technical interviews in the industry.

​📝 What We'll Cover

​In this session, we'll explore:

• ​How AI tools reduced a 15-minute programming challenge to under 10 minutes

• ​Why banning AI from interviews doesn't make sense when engineers use it daily

• ​A detailed look at Neon's new AI-friendly technical interview exercise, now being integrated into Databricks' hiring practices

• ​Real data on candidate performance before and after the change

• ​Practical insights from being an early adopter of AI-integrated interviews

• ​The unexpected benefits and challenges of embracing AI in the interview process

• ​How this approach aligns with Databricks' vision for AI-native development

​🔍 What Makes This Session Special

​While many companies are still debating whether to allow AI tools in technical interviews, Neon pioneered taking the leap to not just allow, but require them. Now as part of Databricks, this innovative approach is poised to influence hiring practices across a much larger organization. David will share their actual interview exercise and concrete data from this experiment, offering both hiring teams and candidates a glimpse into what could become the new standard for technical assessments in the AI era.

​👤 About the Speaker

​David Gomes is a Lead Engineer who helped reshape how we evaluate engineering talent at Neon and is now bringing this expertise to Databricks following their recent acquisition. With a background in competitive programming and extensive experience in technical interviews, David brings a practical perspective on adapting engineering practices to embrace rather than resist technological change.

​This event is hosted by G2i, a talent marketplace connecting top-tier developers with meaningful remote work. As leaders in technical talent assessment, we're particularly excited to host this talk as it aligns with our progressive approach to technical evaluation and our commitment to embracing emerging technologies that enhance the developer experience.