Google Cloud Executive Describes How She Evaluates Creativity and AI Skills in Technical Interviews

Summary

Yasmeen Ahmad, a Google Cloud executive building a new engineering team, shared two primary methods she uses to evaluate creativity during job interviews: portfolio-based assessment and scenario-based testing. The scenario testing component specifically focuses on how candidates approach problems using AI tools in unfamiliar domains, looking for the ability to break conventional workflow patterns. Ahmad highlighted that AI is increasingly embedded in the interview process itself — both by candi