Anthropic hiring manager kills the coding interview: 'hunger beats tenure' in the AI era
bibryam · x · 2026-11-08
Felix Rieseberg, a hiring manager at Anthropic, has stopped giving coding interviews — Claude now outperforms candidates on small coding challenges, making the tests pointless as predictors. His advice for junior engineers: impact is no longer bounded by years of accumulated framework knowledge; initiative and business acumen matter more, and hungry newcomers are flying past more experienced coders.
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