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IT Home reported on October 28 that Felix Rieseberg, an Anthropic hiring manager and engineering lead for Claude-related products, said this month that he had eliminated traditional coding-question interviews from his team's hiring process. He wrote on social media: “The coding interview is 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 screen engineers with coding questions is as pointless as continuing to quiz them on assembly language. Interview results measure AI's abilities more than the judgment, product taste, and collaboration skills candidates might demonstrate in real work.
He also offered junior engineers a rather bold suggestion: In the AI era, when the “cost of execution” has fallen sharply, seniority no longer automatically determines impact. Instead of waiting for a complete product requirements document, cross-departmental approval, or support from designers and product managers, they should target a specific business goal, use their fresh perspective and AI tools to build a working prototype focused on a single point over a weekend, and use the result to win organizational support. He summed up this reasoning as “hunger beats seniority.”
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