The State of AI in Technical Hiring: 2026 Research Report

This report examines the real impact of AI in technical hiring, backed by research across 400+ companies and the latest industry studies. It reveals why the human+AI model outperforms AI-only approaches and provides a roadmap for building accurate, fair, and scalable hiring systems.

Why Read this Report?

Understand AI's real limitations - Quantified data on accuracy drops, bias spikes, and trust issues in AI-only interviews.

Protect your employer brand - Why 58% of candidates distrust AI scoring and what it means for talent attraction.

Reduce bias, don't amplify it - How AI increases accent errors by 29% and penalizes neurodivergent candidates.

Evaluate what actually matters - Why AI rewards presentation over capability and misses critical skills.

Adopt the winning model - Performance data on human-led, AI-assisted interviews vs. AI-only approaches.

Future-proof your hiring strategy - How leading companies use AI to enhance human judgment, not replace it.