Have you ever secretly used AI tools during a job interview? If yes, you are not alone; a new report has claimed that one in five professionals in the US have secretly used AI tools during job interviews. The survey has been conducted by Blind, an anonymous community app with over 12 million professionals across industries.
The app’s latest survey, conducted in April 2025 with 3,617 ‘verified’ professionals, suggested that more than half of the respondents believe AI-assisted interviews have become the norm.
According to the app, 20 per cent of professionals in the US have secretly used AI tools during job interviews. The survey was conducted between April 10 and April 20, 2025 on its platform. While 55 per cent (1,989) agreed that using AI during interviews has become the new norm, 27 per cent (977) disagreed, and 18 per cent (651) said they were unsure.
When it came to actual behaviour, as many as 503 respondents (20 per cent) answered ‘yes’ to the question, ‘Have you ever secretly used AI tools during interviews as an interviewee?’. About 80 per cent (2,007) responded with a no. The company said that a total of 2,510 responses were collected for this question.
As part of the survey, Blind also gathered opinions and actual experiences related to AI use during interviews. The participants were asked to respond with ‘Agree’, ‘Disagree’, or ‘Unsure’ to the first question and with ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the second question. The first question was, ‘Has AI assistance during interviews become the new norm?’, while the second was, ‘Have you ever secretly used AI tools during interviews as an interviewee?
More use of AI at Big Tech
According to the survey, more people secretly used AI while being interviewed at companies like Uber, Intuit, Block, Bloomberg, Broadcom, Pinterest, Tesla, Apple, Intel, DoorDash, etc. The survey stated that employees at these companies stayed an average of 2.4 months less than those at companies with lower AI usage.
However, with Blind users, the opinions on AI use during interviews remain divided. “Interviews just need to get with the times. It’s using the tools at your disposal to solve problems the same way you will solve them on the job,” said an employee at Intuit, as per the report. On similar lines, an employee at Envestnet reportedly said, “The line we’re drawing between cheating and not is kind of arbitrary. You can’t use AI, but knowledge dumps from recent interviews are okay.”
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Another Uber employee reportedly offered a differing view. The Uber staffer argued, “The whole point of interviews is to gauge someone’s knowledge so that when they face an abstract problem, they can figure out a solution.” Meanwhile, another Amazon employee said, “I know people who have cheated during coding interviews. They were so low-skilled on the job and dragged their feet for six months before resigning.”
With more such instances being reported, companies are scrambling to deploy effective countermeasures to ensure hiring integrity. Most companies are working towards adapting to the evolving landscape of technology. An Amazon employee said that interviewers at his company have started asking candidates to adjust the camera so it shows their hands. “It’s very obvious that someone is cheating if you see them typing but no code is being written on the screen,” said the user on Blind. Another Amazon staffer said, “I have seen a few candidates cheating. Now they are banned from Amazon. If things continue this way, we’ll just fly them here to code on the whiteboard.”
Some users on Blind shared alternative methods. A Dell employee shared their experience, explaining, “My computer had a screen extension, which allowed my buddy to see it in another room. When I saw the question, I pretended to think for a couple of minutes while my buddy used ChatGPT to find the answer. The answers were right in front of me, and I copied them. I got the offer.”