AgentHippo
Testing the wrong skill
Memorizing algorithms matters less when every engineer has AI. What matters is how they decompose problems, prompt effectively, and validate AI output.
AI-native interviews
Coding interviews test skills nobody uses on the job anymore.
Your engineers work with AI every day. Your interviews pretend AI doesn't exist. That gap is why you keep hiring people who can invert a binary tree but can't ship an agent. Use the same IDE your team builds in — and see how candidates actually think.
› Why traditional interviews fail in the AI era
No signal on AI fluency
Can they break a complex task into clear prompts? Do they verify or blindly accept? Do they know when to switch models? You can't see any of this in a whiteboard interview.
Inconsistent environments
Every interview uses a different setup. Candidates fight the tooling instead of showing their thinking. Agent packs give every candidate the same starting point.
› How it works
Pack your interview as an agent pack
Define the problem, starter code, constraints, and evaluation criteria in a versioned pack. Every candidate gets identical conditions. Update the pack, not a wiki page.
Candidates work in a real IDE
Not a toy sandbox. Full editor, terminal, file tree, Git — with the AI engine of their choice. They work the way they'd work on your team.
Full session traces
See every prompt, tool call, edit, and model response. Understand their reasoning process, not just the final output. How did they break the problem down? Did they test? Did they iterate?
Compare candidates with data
Spotlight analytics across interview sessions. Compare prompt strategies, token efficiency, tool usage patterns, and time-to-solution. Hiring decisions backed by traces, not gut feel.
› You already have the tool
This isn't a separate product. It's your agent IDE doing what it already does — running packs, tracing sessions, showing you what happened. The same environment your team builds in is the most honest interview environment you can offer. No extra subscription. No new vendor. Just a new pack.