Anthropic engineering manager drops coding interviews as AI takes over code writing

With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic

Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg has scrapped the traditional coding interview. He says AI coding has made small programming tests meaningless, so hiring should instead test product judgment, empathy and principled thinking.

Why it matters: Anthropic's hiring bar now leans on product judgment and empathy shown in prototypes, raising a more startup-minded threshold for new engineers.