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Your View of AI and How You Use AI Tools in Software Engineering Work

MicrosoftSoftware Engineer · Onsite
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A behavioral question asking for your view of AI and how you use AI tools in your engineering work. It tests balanced judgment about benefits and limits, how you verify AI-generated output, accountability for what you ship, and care with private code and data.

What is your view of AI, and of using AI in your work? The role's hiring teams include a group focused on AI trust, and the interviewer described the work as mainly privacy and compatibility.

Clarifying Questions

  • Do you want my view of AI as a technology and its risks, how I personally use AI tools at work, or both?
  • Does the team have a policy on which AI tools may be used with internal code and data?

Hints

Hint 1

Be concrete: Name specific tasks where AI tools help you and specific ones where you do not trust them, and say how you check what they produce.

Hint 2

Think about responsibility: Consider who is accountable for code produced with AI help, and what code or data you would and would not share with an AI tool on a team whose work is privacy.

Follow-up questions

  • An AI tool proposes a fix that passes the tests, but you do not fully understand it. Do you merge it?
  • How would you tell whether a teammate's heavy use of AI tools is helping or hurting code quality?
  • If your team were shipping an AI-powered feature, what would you check before releasing it?