Anthropic manager says the 'coding interview is dead' — here's his advice for junior developers
Source: Business Insider ·
Felix Rieseberg says AI has made coding tests obsolete. He urged junior engineers to instead show business impact through focused prototypes.
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Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg says coding tests are obsolete in the AI era.Utku Ucrak/Anadolu via Getty ImagesAn Anthropic manager says Claude has made traditional coding interviews a poor hiring signal.His advice to juniors: target business problems and build a focused prototype over a weekend.Google and Amazon are also reshaping engineering work and hiring around AI fluency and impact.Out with the coding test, in with Claude.That's the shift Felix Rieseberg, an Anthropic engineering manager, says he has made to his team's hiring process, arguing that AI has rendered traditional coding interviews a poor measure of who will succeed at work."The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic," Rieseberg wrote in a Tuesday post on X. "I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal."Rieseberg elaborated in a blog post, writing that there's "no point" in giving candidates coding challenges or asking them about programming languages like assembly.…