Anthropic manager drops coding interviews as Claude handles the tasks
Original title: With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic
Felix Rieseberg says prototypes and business sense now matter more than tenure or classic coding tests.
Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg says he has dropped small coding interviews because Claude completes them better than candidates. He argues newcomers notice problems veterans treat as fixed and that cheaper execution lets them ship weekend prototypes tied to a manager’s goals. He cites Anthony Morris and Alice Zhao building Claude Code’s graphical interface over a weekend, with a public version about eight days later. The piece is his hiring advice, not a product or security announcement.
- Rieseberg has led development of Claude.ai and Claude Code Desktop.
- He says good test scores no longer predict top developers on his teams.
- He now looks for small prototypes that show taste, empathy and principled thinking.
- He quotes the line “Hunger beats tenure” as his hiring stance.
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Products
- Claude Code DesktopClaude.ai
- AI models
- Claude
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Anthropic manager Felix Rieseberg says the classic coding interview is dead because Claude now solves small programming tasks better than job candidates do. He'd rather see prototypes that show taste, empathy, and principled thinking, since in his words, "hunger beats tenure."
By Maximilian Schreiner · the-decoder.com
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