Anthropic hiring manager Felix Rieseberg has made a bold statement, saying he “laid the traditional coding interview to rest.”

Coding interviews have been a long-standing and popular way to test a programmer or software engineer’s general skill level. Beyond basic skills, it gives the hiring manager a window into how the developer thinks. Do they write concise, efficient code? Do they write verbose code that is more visually appealing? Do they document their code clearly? While certainly not foolproof, the coding interview gave a hiring manager at least some glimpse into what kind of programmer a candidate might be.

According to Rieseberg , however, the rise of AI-assisted coding has made the coding interview obsolete.

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.…