Hunger beats tenure

Felix Rieseberg: This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest. As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them. It had a good run: Being able to quickly define problems and find elegant solutions was a weak but useful predictor for how successful you’d be on my teams. Small coding challenges in real code did tell us something meaningful about candidates. That’s no longer true. There’s no more point in giving you a little React challenge than there is in quizzing people about assembly; Claude is now better at both. Our most impactful builders are successful regardless of how good they are at these tests. […] I’m seeing engineers who are comparatively new fly past people who are probably better coders and have been around much longer. Hunger beats tenure. The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.I have a spicy, optimistic take – I…