Anthropic team kills coding interview: "It no longer provides signal"
wavefnx · x · 2026-10-28
- A team lead at Anthropic has removed coding interviews from hiring loops, saying AI tools have made them signal-less, and argues junior engineers may actually benefit.
- A replier counters that architecture interviews should be mandatory instead: architecture demands handling arbitrary external constraints and long-horizon planning—exactly where current models still fail spectacularly.
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