Agentic Interviewing allows candidates to complete coding interviews using modern AI coding agents (such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and similar tools). This experience simulates how developers increasingly work in real environments - collaborating with AI tools to design, write, and debug code.
Currently, Agentic Interviewing is available as a single interview question that can be added to your live interview session.
What is Agentic Interviewing?
Agentic Interviewing introduces a coding question designed to be completed with the help of an AI coding agent. Instead of solving the problem entirely manually, candidates can use supported coding agents to assist them during the interview.
This helps teams evaluate how candidates:
- Collaborate with AI tools
- Guide and prompt coding agents effectively
Review and validate AI-generated code - Solve problems in an AI-assisted development workflow
Requirements
- Your company must have AI-assisted content included in your CodeSignal subscription.
- This feature is available for early access. If you are interested in enabling Agentic Interviewing for your organization, please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM).
- If you are using Cursor, there is an important limitation: either the interviewer or the candidate must sign in with their own Cursor account. Due to how the Cursor CLI currently works, keys cannot be pre-configured and users must sign in each time.
How to Use Agentic Interviewing
To run an Agentic Interview:
- Open the interview containing the agentic question.
- Use the Environment switcher to select the coding agent you want to use.
Note that if you switch the environment during the live interview with your candidate, the editor will be cleared and you will lose any changes you’ve made to the code.
- Begin the interview and work through the problem with the selected agent. Candidates can use the agent to assist with writing, editing, or reasoning about their solution.