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Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg Drops Coding Interviews From His Team’s Hiring Process

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Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg said he removed traditional coding interviews from his team’s hiring process this month because he no longer considers them a useful signal for evaluating candidates. According to Baoyu’s account of Rieseberg’s October 27 blog post, Rieseberg’s reasoning is that Claude now handles traditional coding questions better than people. The change applies to his team at Anthropic. Rieseberg also argued that junior engineers have an opportunity.

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  1. Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg drops coding interviews and sees an opening for junior engineers

    Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg says he removed coding interviews from his team’s interview process this month because they no longer provide useful signals. In Baoyu’s account of Rieseberg’s October 27 blog post, the reason is that Claude now handles traditional coding questions better than people. Rieseberg also argues that junior engineers have an opportunity: https://t.co/PVvpQCbQtK

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