Anthropic hiring lead says coding interviews no longer screen engineers

According to an IT Home report on October 28, 2026, Felix Rieseberg, an Anthropic hiring manager and the head of Claude product engineering, posted on social media this month that “the coding interview is dead, at least for my team,” and said he has removed traditional coding-problem interviews from his team’s hiring process. Rieseberg argued that once Claude can easily complete small React challenges and even handle low-level assembly problems, continuing to screen engineers with coding tasks is as pointless as still testing assembly language. In his view, such interviews measure AI’s capability far more than the judgment, product taste, and collaboration skills a candidate might show in real work. Rieseberg also offered advice to junior engineers: in an AI era where the “execution cost” of building has dropped sharply, seniority no longer automatically translates into influence. Rather than waiting for a complete product requirements document, cross-team approvals, or support from designers and product managers, juniors should pick a concrete business goal, use their fresh perspective plus AI tools, and ship a working single-point prototype in a weekend, using the result to win organizational backing. He summed up this logic as “hunger beats seniority.” As of the available reporting, this describes Rieseberg’s personal hiring approach for his own team; the material does not state whether Anthropic has changed company-wide hiring standards or whether other teams have followed suit.