Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that 'hunger beats tenure'

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Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:05:00 +0000

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Anthropics Felix Rieseberg retires coding tasks in interviews after deciding that Claude does a better job.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter 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 companys 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. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

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. You may like Anthropic says its workforce has been getting older, but is also spending more time in meetings Microsoft engineer claims 'typing code is absolutely over', with AI and GitHub Copilot set to transform coding as we know it Quote of the day by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy: "The hottest new programming language is English"

He explains that while coding challenges in interviews were once useful, that is no longer the past. Theres no more point in giving you a little React challenge than there is in quizzing people about assembly; Claude is now better at both.

Instead, Rieseberg offers some anecdotes of people who were active agents of change when joining new companies, and suggests making an impact is the answer. Radical ideas and a weekend coding a prototype with AI are the new coding interview, essentially, approaching being hired with a demonstration
of the project they prompted and finessed, and its outcome. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get
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your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Sheer ignorance Riesebergs decision may have come out of the blue, but his rationale seems to make some sort of sense. He quotes actor and director Orson Welles, who responded to a question about his confidence
to try new things with Ignorance, sheer ignorance you know theres no confidence to equal it. Its only when you know something about a profession,
I think, that youre timid or careful.

With that as context, Riesebergs conclusion that coding interviews are not
the answer when the company product already codes better than anyone it can hire has legs. Perhaps it was inevitable that the day would come, but crucially, Rieseberg isnt giving up on hiring. Instead, hes looking for a new way to do it, a route to finding new junior engineers without them needing a coding assessment.

Im probably not the only manager trying to figure out how to interview for people who build well with AI. I havent quite gotten there yet but Im scanning resumes and portfolios for little prototypes that exhibit taste, empathy, and principled thinking. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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