“The coding interview is dead!” We have turned the idea by @felixrieseberg at @AnthropicAI into a huge AI-Native Talent Hunt at SF Tech Week.
Don’t interview people about the work. Watch them do the work.
We believe hiring needs a better signal than LeetCode: Proof of Work with your PROCESS, a new credential in the AI era.
We made it happen with early believers in changing how AI-native talent is assessed and hired. Thank you to our amazing co-host @Tiny_Fish, agent partner @OpenAI Codex, and hiring partners @GenDigitalInc, @ZingageAI, @Gruve_ai, @cresta, @CreaoAI, @SmithfieldFoods, @dify_ai, @OpusClip, and @openart_ai.
Together with the enthusiasm of our candidates, we got:
• 1,600+ signups
• 300+ attendees
• 200+ submissions
• 10,000+ minutes working videos
How it works:
1. Companies turn internal business problems into real work sample tasks on NeoWork (neo-work.ai).
2. Candidates tackle them on NeoHuman (neo-human.ai) using Codex and other AI tools.
3. NeoWork evaluates the deliverable and recorded process. We highlight moments that reveal human judgment: catching an AI mistake, checking a claim before acting, or changing an approach that isn’t working.
4. Hiring managers review the work, our assessment, and supporting evidence to decide whom to interview or hire.
We grouped the 10 companies' works into 3 tracks: Product, Marketing, and Engineering. Each work was designed for about an hour. Examples include:
@GenDigitalInc: design a browser agent’s action pipeline that resists prompt injection.
@CreaoAI: turn design guidelines into enforceable rules and prove they catch real UI issues.
@cresta: build a support agent that follows policy and knows when to escalate.
@openart_ai: select consistent memories for an AI director.
@dify_ai: decide whether a support AI is ready to ship, backed by evidence.
Congratulations to our overall winners!
🥇 @samshanmukh: 97/100
🥈 Rohan R: 89/100
🥉 Shivam Mahajan: 87/100
And our track winners:
Product: Marcus Wong
Marketing: @AndrewDrok
Engineering: Akshat Patel
We know today’s job market is tough, even for people already in work:
- Juniors need experience to get experience.
- Career changers have skills their old titles don’t show.
- Laid-off professionals have to prove themselves all over again.
- Employed professionals must adapt to AI while keeping up with today’s workload.
That’s why we’ll keep hosting AI-Native Talent Hunts, with campus events at @UCBerkeley and @Stanford this November.
Follow our events calendar (lnkd.in/gzjNWahB) for your next chance to show what you can do.
Don’t interview people about the work. Watch them do the work.
We believe hiring needs a better signal than LeetCode: Proof of Work with your PROCESS, a new credential in the AI era.
We made it happen with early believers in changing how AI-native talent is assessed and hired. Thank you to our amazing co-host @Tiny_Fish, agent partner @OpenAI Codex, and hiring partners @GenDigitalInc, @ZingageAI, @Gruve_ai, @cresta, @CreaoAI, @SmithfieldFoods, @dify_ai, @OpusClip, and @openart_ai.
Together with the enthusiasm of our candidates, we got:
• 1,600+ signups
• 300+ attendees
• 200+ submissions
• 10,000+ minutes working videos
How it works:
1. Companies turn internal business problems into real work sample tasks on NeoWork (neo-work.ai).
2. Candidates tackle them on NeoHuman (neo-human.ai) using Codex and other AI tools.
3. NeoWork evaluates the deliverable and recorded process. We highlight moments that reveal human judgment: catching an AI mistake, checking a claim before acting, or changing an approach that isn’t working.
4. Hiring managers review the work, our assessment, and supporting evidence to decide whom to interview or hire.
We grouped the 10 companies' works into 3 tracks: Product, Marketing, and Engineering. Each work was designed for about an hour. Examples include:
@GenDigitalInc: design a browser agent’s action pipeline that resists prompt injection.
@CreaoAI: turn design guidelines into enforceable rules and prove they catch real UI issues.
@cresta: build a support agent that follows policy and knows when to escalate.
@openart_ai: select consistent memories for an AI director.
@dify_ai: decide whether a support AI is ready to ship, backed by evidence.
Congratulations to our overall winners!
🥇 @samshanmukh: 97/100
🥈 Rohan R: 89/100
🥉 Shivam Mahajan: 87/100
And our track winners:
Product: Marcus Wong
Marketing: @AndrewDrok
Engineering: Akshat Patel
We know today’s job market is tough, even for people already in work:
- Juniors need experience to get experience.
- Career changers have skills their old titles don’t show.
- Laid-off professionals have to prove themselves all over again.
- Employed professionals must adapt to AI while keeping up with today’s workload.
That’s why we’ll keep hosting AI-Native Talent Hunts, with campus events at @UCBerkeley and @Stanford this November.
Follow our events calendar (lnkd.in/gzjNWahB) for your next chance to show what you can do.
