Hunger over tenure: What Anthropic’s end of the coding interview signals for IT hiring
Hunger beats tenure. That is the line at the center of a short post published this week by Felix Rieseberg, an engineering manager at Anthropic who has led engineering for Claude.ai, Cowork and Claude Code Desktop. Rieseberg wrote that he has stopped giving candidates coding interviews: a small React challenge now tells him no more than a quiz on assembly language would, because Claude is better at both. His most impactful builders, he says, succeed regardless of how they score on such tests.
One hiring manager at one AI company is an anecdote, and a conflicted one: Anthropic sells the technology in question, and readers should weigh the claim accordingly. But the practice he is retiring, and the argument he builds on top of it, partly line up with survey and labor-market data that IT hiring leaders would be unwise to ignore. The same data also shows where the...
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