Overview
- Felix Rieseberg, an engineering manager at Anthropic, said on Tuesday that he has removed timed coding interviews from his team’s hiring process because they no longer provide useful signal.
- Rieseberg argues that Anthropic’s Claude and similar coding models can reliably solve the small, timed problems that those interviews used to test, so those tasks no longer distinguish candidates.
- He highlights an internal example where two newer engineers built a graphical interface for Claude Code over a weekend and shipped a public version about eight days later as evidence that AI narrows traditional skill gaps.
- For now Rieseberg is scanning resumes and portfolios for small, opinionated prototypes that show ‘hunger,’ taste, empathy and principled thinking, but he has not adopted a formal, objective replacement.
- Reporters and analysts warn that portfolio- and prototype-based hiring raises fairness and subjectivity risks, and other big firms are only just piloting AI-assisted interview methods, so hiring practices remain in flux.