Anthropic hiring manager Felix Rieseberg reveals that coding interviews are over
In a blog post, the engineering manager explains that Claude codes better, making coding tasks obsolete
Rieseberg encourages junior engineers to approach their work with a new attitude, while he examines a way to interview people who are good at AI coding
The end is nigh for coding tasks in interviews, certainly as far as Anthropic is concerned. The AI company’s engineering manager Felix Rieseberg has published a blog post explaining how junior engineers should approach jobs and their current roles, after announcing the abandonment of coding interviews. His rationale for the decision is straightforward: AI codes better than humans, making the assessment pretty pointless. At a time when Claude can demonstrate a superior grasp of coding, putting job candidates through the process no longer reveals anything “meaningful about the candidates,” according to Rieseberg. Instead, he advises that junior engineers should focus instead on making an impact, while taking the time to understand the company and the people working within it. No code candidates
Rieseberg is quick to the point: “This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest. As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them.” He explains that while coding challenges in interviews were once useful, that is no longer the past…