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Felix Rieseberg, an engineering manager at Anthropic who has led work on Claude.ai and the Claude Code desktop app, has eliminated traditional coding interviews from his team's hiring loops. Rieseberg announced the move in a blog post, arguing that putting applicants through live technical tests no longer reveals anything meaningful about their capabilities because Claude now outperforms human candidates at those tasks. [1][2]
Rieseberg stated that testing job seekers with small React exercises has become as obsolete as quizzing them on assembly code. Instead of abandoned assessments, he is reevaluating how to evaluate developers who build alongside AI, looking across resumes and portfolios for prototypes that demonstrate empathy, taste, and principled thinking. [1]
The change reflects an evolving shift for junior software engineers navigating an AI-dominated industry. Rieseberg encouraged newer developers to focus on delivering impact and developing working prototypes with AI tools rather than relying strictly on tenure or conventional technical problem-solving. [1]
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg retires coding tasks in interviews after deciding that Claude does a better job.
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That manager is Felix Rieseberg. He's led engineering on Claude.ai and the Claude Code desktop app, among other things. Earlier this week, he posted on X that the coding interview no longer tells him anything useful. So he pulled it from his team's hiring loops this month.
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