Anthropic drops traditional coding interviews

On 28 October 2026, Latent Space reported that Anthropic hiring manager Felix Rieseberg announced the company will no longer require candidates to take traditional coding interviews. He cited Claude's performance on React challenges and assembly problems as surpassing humans, and said the most productive builders do not rely on such tests. Rieseberg also advised junior engineers to focus on business impact rather than to-do lists, pick one ambitious idea, build a working prototype over a weekend, and avoid cramming multiple ideas into a single prototype. The change has so far been described only by the hiring lead; the report does not say whether the company has published a formal hiring policy document or whether the practice covers all roles.

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