Technical interviews were fragile long before AI. Now, with tools like ChatGPT able to solve standard questions and generate polished responses, many interviews risk measuring polish instead of depth, and confidence instead of competence. This talk explores what interviews are really for in 2025 — and how teams can redesign them to reveal true engineering judgment, not just correct syntax.

We’ll walk through a new mental model for interviews: one that prioritizes behavior over recall, thinking over answers, and collaboration over interrogation. You’ll leave with practical strategies to make interviews more grounded, signal-rich, and resistant to AI automation — not harder, just smarter.