Published on 04.04.2026
TLDR: The BI engineering interview process hasn't kept pace with how the job actually works in 2026. Anusha Kovi, a data and BI engineer focused on governed AI for data platforms, shares the 30 questions she'd ask candidates today instead of the ones that were being asked when she interviewed in 2022.
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TLDR: GitHub announced that starting April 24, it will use Copilot interaction data, including code from private repositories, to train AI models by default. The same week, Copilot was caught injecting ads into 1.5 million or more pull requests. This isn't a hypothetical trust erosion. It's already happening.
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