Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead
Why give people tests that AI aces?
There’s no more point in giving you a little React challenge than there is in quizzing people about assembly; Claude is now better at both," he insisted. "Our most impactful builders are successful regardless of how good they are at these tests."
In a response posted to social media, Jaana Dogan, principal engineer at Google, said much the same. "I’m not doing a ton of coding interviews nowadays but I’d be interested to interview how people use coding agents," she wrote. "That itself gives me more signals about candidates' coding skills."
