Anthropic manager says the 'coding interview is dead' — here's his advice for junior developers

Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg says coding tests are obsolete in the AI era. Utku Ucrak/Anadolu via Getty Images An Anthropic manager says Claude has made traditional coding interviews a poor hiring signal. His advice to juniors: target business problems and build a focused prototype over a weekend. Google and Amazon are also reshaping engineering work and hiring around AI fluency and impact. Out with the coding test, in with Claude. That's the shift Felix Rieseberg , an Anthropic engineering manager, says he has made to his team's hiring process, arguing that AI has rendered traditional coding interviews a poor measure of who will succeed at work. "The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic," Rieseberg wrote in a Tuesday post on X. "I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal."