How Companies Will Hire Based on AI Usage
Smart companies will hire you based on "how" you use AI.
McKinsey & Company started piloting an interview where candidates use its internal AI tool, Lilli, to analyze a case and refine a recommendation.
On paper, that sounds like a shortcut. Faster analysis, cleaner slides, fewer mental math errors under pressure.
But the risk is not that applicants will use AI. The risk is that they will confuse AI output with finished work.
The real test is whether someone can take what Lilli produces, challenge it, and adapt it to a client’s constraints without losing the thread. That is the job now.
This is the same shift playing out in companies rolling out Microsoft Copilot or OpenAI tools across finance, operations, and sales.
Teams still budget for “implementation.” What they underestimate is the cost of treating judgment as a nice-to-have layer on top.
You see it later, when a confident answer ships, and no one can explain why it was the right answer for this business, this customer, this week.
That gap is not an execution problem. It starts earlier.