# Anthropic hiring manager says coding interviews are over for junior engineers

> Original title: [AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure"

- Source: Latent Space
- Published: 2026-10-28T08:50:30.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/m1oo6mwgzvu6xkzil3dbhym0u
- Original: https://latent.space/p/ainews-anthropic-ends-coding-interviews-hunger-beats-tenure/

## Summary

Anthropic hiring manager Felix Reiseberg says he has stopped giving traditional coding interviews because Claude now outperforms candidates on such tests, and advises junior engineers to focus on business impact, build working prototypes over a weekend, and pursue one strong idea.