IT Home On October 28, Felix Rieseberg, a recruitment manager at Anthropic and the engineering leader for Claude-related products, said this month that he has removed traditional programming interview questions from his team’s recruitment process. He posted on a social platform: “Programming interviews are dead, at least for my team.”
Rieseberg believes that once Claude can easily solve small React challenges and even handle low-level assembly problems, using programming problems to select engineers is as meaningless as continuing to test assembly language skills. The interview results measure more the AI’s capabilities than the judgment, product sense, and collaboration skills that a candidate might exhibit in real work.
He also made a rather bold suggestion to the junior engineers: in the era of AI where “execution costs” have dropped significantly, experience no longer naturally determines influence. Instead of waiting for complete product requirement documents, cross-departmental approvals, or support from designers and product managers, it’s better to focus on specific business goals, use the perspective of a newcomer and AI tools, and create a functional single prototype in one weekend, using those results to gain organizational support. He summarized this logic as “hunger outweighs experience.”
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