Meta plans AI-driven hiring overhaul, internal doc reveals
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- Meta plans to start using AI in some of its hiring processes, an internal document shows.
- The company is preparing to use AI to judge the quality of its interviewers and help with questions.
- It also wants to use AI to carry out administrative functions as part of its recruitment operations.
From coding agents to a Manhattan-sized data center, Meta's going all in on AI this year — and now plans to put it to work in HR.
The company is preparing to use AI to automate key parts of its recruitment process, including testing coding skills and helping interviewers with question prompts, according to an internal document obtained by Business Insider.
The document reveals Meta's plans to lean on AI to carry out several functions in its hiring process in the latter half of this year. Meta aims to use AI for a lot of the administrative work involved in its recruitment process, like matching interviewers with candidates, transcribing interview notes, and flagging job posts that overlap.
Meta also intends to use an internal AI assistant to judge the quality of its human interviewers, including by flagging any questions that aren't inclusive, and assessing how "good" they are based on criteria such as the number of candidates they advance to the next stage and the quality of their feedback.
In addition, Meta plans to use the AI assistant to help interviewers with scheduling, including their preferences for how many internal or external interviews they want to conduct each week. It is also set to keep track of interviewers' skills, including what languages they speak.
The overall goal is to automate some functions, make its hiring processes more efficient, flexible, and adaptable, and improve the "interviewer conduct rate," according to the business outcomes listed in the document.
A Meta spokesperson told BI: "Like many other companies, we're using AI to make recruiting more efficient and match candidates with open roles more quickly. Humans talking to humans will always be part of the interview process, that remains unchanged."
Meta is not the only Big Tech firm turning to AI to streamline its recruitment operations. Amazon uses AI hiring tools to help screen candidates and find them relevant roles, although it doesn't want job seekers using AI to help them get ahead in interviews. The company has been cracking down on the use of AI tools like coding assistants and "teleprompter" apps, BI's Eugene Kim previously reported.
A growing number of companies are also embracing AI for a range of recruitment tasks. LinkedIn's "Future of Recruiting 2025" report, released in February, found 37% of organizations it surveyed were "actively integrating" or "experimenting" with adopting AI tools into their hiring process. That's up from 27% a year ago.
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