Anthropic hiring manager Felix Rieseberg says coding interviews are dead, team drops traditional coding questions
Felix Rieseberg, hiring manager at Anthropic and head of engineering for Claude-related products, said he has removed traditional coding-question interviews from his team's hiring, reasoning that Claude can easily complete small React challenges and even low-level assembly problems, so coding questions measure AI capability 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-departmental approvals, but instead to use a newcomer's perspective and AI tools to build a working single-point prototype over a weekend, summing up this logic as "hunger beats seniority."
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"Coding Interviews Are Dead": Anthropic Says Coding Problems Can No Longer Screen Programmers in the AI Era
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IT Home, October 28 — Felix Rieseberg, a hiring manager at Anthropic and the engineering lead for Claude-related products, said this month that he has removed the traditional coding-problem interview from his team's hiring process. In a post on social media, he wrote: "Coding interviews are dead — at least for my team."
Rieseberg believes that now that Claude can easily complete small React challenges and even handle low-level assembly problems, continuing to use coding problems to screen engineers is as meaningless as continuing to quiz candidates on assembly language. The interview results measure more the capabilities of AI than the judgment, product taste, and collaboration skills a candidate might demonstrate in real work.
He also offered a rather bold suggestion to junior engineers: in the AI era, where the "cost of execution" has dropped sharply, seniority no longer automatically determines influence. Rather than waiting for a complete product requirements document, cross-departmental approvals, or resource support from designers and product managers, it is better to aim at a specific business goal, use a newcomer's perspective and AI tools, and build a working single-point prototype over a weekend, using the results to win organizational support. He summed up this logic as "hunger beats seniority."
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