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An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that "hunger beats tenure" (Felix Rieseberg)
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Felix Rieseberg: An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that “hunger beats tenure” — This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest. As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them.
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