Anthropic hiring manager kills coding interviews: 'hunger beats tenure'
bibryam · x · 2026-10-30
Felix Rieseberg, a hiring manager at Anthropic, has stopped giving traditional coding interviews — Claude now handles small React challenges better than candidates, making them as obsolete as assembly quizzes.
- His most impactful builders succeed regardless of how they score on such tests.
- His advice for engineers without social capital: know your advantage (fresh eyes) and handicap (no voice), and lean into hunger — junior engineers with drive are outpacing more experienced, arguably better coders.
- Impact is no longer bounded by years of accumulated framework knowledge in the AI era.
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