Felix Rieseberg says coding interviews are dead
Felix Rieseberg, a hiring manager at Anthropic and the head of product engineering for Claude-related products, said he has removed traditional coding-question interviews from his team's hiring process. His reasoning: Claude can already easily complete small React challenges and even low-level assembly problems, so coding questions measure more of AI's capabilities than a candidate's judgment, product taste, and collaboration skills. He also suggested that junior engineers need not wait for complete requirements documents and cross-departmental approvals; instead, they can target specific business goals and build a runnable single-point prototype over a weekend to win organizational support, summarizing this logic as "hunger beats credentials." On the same day, commenting on the matter, Peter Yang listed other hiring practices that need to change, including screening candidates by years of work experience or company name, emphasizing resumes and cover letters over actual projects, treating the number of people managed as an achievement in itself, and replacing short work trials with endless rounds of interviews.
Felix Rieseberg, a hiring manager at Anthropic and the head of product engineering for Claude-related products, said he has removed traditional coding-question interviews from his team's hiring process. His reasoning: Claude can already easily complete small React challenges and even low-level assembly problems, so coding questions measure more of AI's capabilities than a candidate's judgment, product taste, and collaboration skills. He also suggested that junior engineers need not wait for comp
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