Using AI when interviewing with Magnopus

Preparing with AI

You’re welcome to use AI tools to support your preparation ahead of interviews. These are all absolutely fine:

✔ Writing & editing support

• Improving clarity or grammar in your CV or written application

• Helping you articulate your experience more clearly or concisely

✔ Interview preparation

• Practising interview questions or STAR-style answers

• Summarising your experience to help prepare examples

• Researching Magnopus, the role, or relevant technologies

✔ Organising your thinking

• Structuring how you present past projects

• Brainstorming talking points

• Refreshing knowledge or concepts ahead of an interview

Using AI to prepare is completely acceptable – just make sure the end result genuinely represents you.

Using AI during interviews

To keep the process fair and to help us understand your abilities, there are some clear boundaries once the interview begins.

✘ Live interviews

AI tools should not be used during any live interview at Magnopus.

This includes:

• Conversation-based interviews.

• Technical discussions.

• Craft or discipline-specific interviews.

• Any live problem-solving or collaborative activities.

Our interviews are designed to understand how you:

• Think through problems.

• Communicate your ideas.

• Collaborate in real time.

• Respond to feedback and uncertainty.

Introducing AI into the live interview environment muddies that signal and makes it harder for us to assess those skills fairly.

✘ Interview exercises

For engineering roles, we include a technical problem-solving exercise during the craft interview. This exercise is intentionally collaborative and discussion-based.

Candidates should not use AI tools during this exercise.

We’re interested in:

• Your approach to problem-solving.

• How you reason aloud.

• How you collaborate with the interviewer.

• How you explore trade-offs and constraints.

There’s no expectation of perfection – we care far more about your thinking, communication, and approach than about arriving at a “right” answer.

Sharing your work and experience

Any examples, code, designs, or portfolio work you share should be something you personally understand and can talk through confidently.

Using AI to misrepresent experience - such as inflating responsibilities, claiming experience you don’t have, or presenting AI-generated work as your own - will count against you.

Authenticity matters more to us than polish.

Why this matters

Being clear about AI use during interviews helps us stay focused on what we’re actually trying to understand: you, not your tools.

We’re looking to learn about things like:

• How you think and solve problems.

• How you communicate and collaborate.

• How you approach learning and uncertainty.

AI can be a useful support tool in day-to-day work, but during interviews, we want a clear, direct signal of your own skills and judgement. This helps ensure a fair and consistent experience for everyone.

Our commitment to you

We promise that:

• Ethical use of AI during preparation will never count against you.

• We’re not looking for perfect answers.

• We value honesty, curiosity, and clear thinking.

• We assess people, not tools.

If something is unclear, we’ll always aim to clarify rather than assume.

If you’re unsure, just ask

Every role and interview is a little different.

If you’re ever unsure what’s appropriate at a particular stage, please ask your recruiter – we’re always happy to explain.

We want you to feel informed, comfortable, and confident going into your interviews.