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A hot potato: These days, plenty of software engineers spend weeks grinding LeetCode problems just to get through a single round of interviews. One engineering manager at Anthropic has now stopped using that round altogether. Claude, he says, beats most candidates at those puzzles anyway.

That manager is Felix Rieseberg. He's led engineering on Claude.ai and the Claude Code desktop app, among other things. Earlier this week, he posted on X that the coding interview no longer tells him anything useful. So he pulled it from his team's hiring loops this month.

In a longer blog post , Rieseberg says watching candidates define a problem and land on a neat solution used to be a weak-but-real predictor of how they'd do on his teams.…