# Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/anthropic-engineer-declares-the-coding-interview-dead/
- Published: 2026-10-28T20:22:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T21:04:36+00:00
- Original publisher: The Register
- Original article: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/28/anthropic-engineer-declares-the-coding-interview-dead/5306115
- Topics: AI, Technology

## Key points

- Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg has dropped coding challenges for his team.
- Google’s Jaana Dogan sees value in assessing how candidates use coding agents.
- 62.5 per cent of surveyed Information employers still require formal skills tests.

## Summary

Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews for his team, arguing that AI tools such as Claude can now outperform candidates on small coding challenges. He believes those tests have become a poor way to identify the builders who will make the greatest contribution.

The article describes a wider debate over how to assess candidates as coding agents improve. Google engineer Jaana Dogan says she would be interested in seeing how applicants use coding agents, but a ZipRecruiter survey of 1,500 employers found that 62.5 per cent of those in the Information sector still require formal skills tests at the initial application stage. Labour economist Nicole Bachaud suggests employers may put more weight on human skills: 61.5 per cent of Information employers say critical thinking is lacking among candidates.

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