Anthropic manager: classic coding interviews are dead as Claude outcodes candidates
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-28
Felix Rieseberg, a manager at Anthropic, says the classic coding interview is dead because Claude now solves small programming tasks better than job candidates do.
He'd rather see prototypes demonstrating taste, empathy, and principled thinking — "hunger beats tenure." The bar for newcomers is shifting toward entrepreneurial thinking and a hustle mentality, which The Decoder notes not everyone brings to the job.
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