Anthropic manager drops coding interviews because Claude is better at them

Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg has dropped the coding interview from his team’s hiring. He explained the change in a blog post on Tuesday, 27 October, titled “Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers”. Rieseberg has led engineering for Claude.ai, Claude Code Desktop and Anthropic’s Cowork tool, according to his bio. He previously worked at Notion, Stripe, Slack and Microsoft. He wrote that small coding challenges had been “a weak but useful predictor” of success on his teams. His most impactful builders now succeed whatever their scores on those tests, he added. Rieseberg wrote that impact now depends less on years of accumulated knowledge of frameworks and libraries. That gives newer engineers a chance to overtake colleagues with more experience.

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