Anthropic hiring manager says coding interviews are dead, team scraps traditional coding questions

Felix Rieseberg, Anthropic's hiring manager and head of engineering for Claude-related products, said he has removed traditional coding-question interviews from his team's hiring process, on the grounds that Claude can now easily handle small React challenges and even low-level assembly problems, so coding questions measure AI's abilities more than a candidate's judgment, product taste, and collaboration skills. He also advised junior engineers not to wait for complete requirements documents and cross-department approvals, but instead to target a specific business goal and spend a weekend building a working single-point prototype to win organizational support, summing up this logic as "hunger beats seniority."