AI-Allowed Phone Screen on Detecting Attacks in Logs

It was a 45-minute phone screen. The recruiter sent me the problem in advance and said I could use AI for coding. The problem was how to detect security attacks in a pile of text-format logs according to given rules. The interviewer had already given me the rules (for example, a source IP accessing more than 10 different destination IPs within 10 minutes). I asked whether I could use AI, and the…

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