New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Global tech giant Google is planning to bring back its in-person interview practices after the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sundar Pichai, said that artificial intelligence (AI) has made virtual hiring unreliable, reported the news portal Times of India.

Pichai said that Google plans to introduce the candidates with at least one round of in-person interviews to ensure that the company can find the fundamentals in a potential hire.

"We are making sure we'll introduce at least one round of in-person interviews for people, just to make sure the fundamentals are there," Sundar Pichai mentioned in an interview with computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman in June 2025.

According to the news report, the ...