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My AI Interview: How I Would Rebuild the AI Interviewer

Lorenzo Colombani6 min read

An AI interviewer assessed my learning-design skills. I ended up coaching it — and wrote down how I would design it instead.

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Behind the argument

Assess the interview design as well as the candidate.

An AI-led interview for a learning-design role becomes a firsthand design critique. Lorenzo describes requests for slower pacing, questions that bundled several tasks together and adjustments that did not persist.

The essay asks what a better interviewer would do: remember conversational context, make changes to the task explicit and investigate confusion before treating it as failure.

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Lorenzo Colombani
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Article
Published
7 September 2026
Perspective
Firsthand experience and design critique
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Reading notes

Assess the interview design as well as the candidate.

Questions help produce answers

The article examines how the wording and delivery of a question shape the performance being assessed. It argues for considering the interviewer’s contribution to the exchange.

From experience to design changes

The proposed changes include persistent pacing adjustments, clear task boundaries and useful follow-up questions. The author also acknowledges that rejection alone does not establish why the screening failed.