Anthropic team lead kills the coding interview, sees opening for junior engineers
josephdviviano · x · 2026-10-28
felixrieseberg, a team lead at Anthropic, says he removed the coding interview from his hiring loops this month: "I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal."
His spicy-but-optimistic take: cheap AI-augmented execution is reshaping the software career ladder — junior engineers shipping working prototypes now move faster than senior engineers protecting processes, creating a real opening for juniors. Quoted by korymath, who agreed the ladder itself is changing.
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