"Hunger beats tenure."
Great write-up by Felix on why his team at Anthropic dropped coding interviews: newer engineers are flying past stronger, more tenured coders.
Execution isn't expensive anymore. Inside a company, the signal is picking an idea that moves the business and prototyping it. Outside, it's a portfolio of small prototypes. Both should show off your taste and judgment.
Claude Code Desktop started as a weekend prototype by two newer engineers.
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The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.
I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers:
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