Abnormal AI Software Engineer interview: feature implementation in an existing codebase

My technical interview focused on AI-assisted coding. I was placed in a fairly large existing codebase and first had to make sense of it with AI tools. Then I used that understanding and AI support to implement a feature and write tests for the changes. It felt less like a pure algorithm check and more like a test of whether I could turn a task into working code while using AI in a controlled way…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.