Anthropic Hiring Manager Drops Coding Interviews, Citing Claude's Coding Ability
Felix Rieseberg, a hiring manager at Anthropic, says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews for his team's hiring, arguing that Claude is now better at the small coding challenges they tested. He reports that impactful builders succeed regardless of such test performance, and that junior engineers without social capital can compete by spotting overlooked opportunities. He advises them to pick business-impact problems, pursue one radical idea, and build a working prototype over a weekend to communicate it.
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Felix Rieseberg, a hiring manager at Anthropic, says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews for his team's hiring, arguing that Claude is now better at the small coding challenges they tested. He reports that impactful builders succeed regardless of such test performance, and that junior engineers without social capital can compete by spotting overlooked opportunities. He advises them to pick business-impact problems, pursue one radical idea, and build a working prototype over a weekend to communicate it.
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- The author has stopped asking candidates to do traditional coding interviews, stating Claude is now better at the small coding challenges used.
- Impactful builders are successful regardless of how well they perform on coding tests, according to the author.
- The author advises junior engineers to build a working prototype of one focused idea rather than several ideas combined.
- Anthropic engineers built a working Claude Code prototype over one weekend, with a first public version shipping about eight days later.
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In an Oct 27 post, Felix Rieseberg says that as a hiring manager at Anthropic he stopped asking candidates to do coding interviews this month, arguing they no longer give signal now that Claude beats candidates on small challenges. He frames it as an opening for engineers without social capital: 'Hunger beats tenure.' One manager's team, not a stated Anthropic-wide policy.
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