VQV Signal
According to a post on X by @felixrieseberg, the coding interview no longer gives useful signal, so he removed it from his team's hiring loops this month. He sees an opening for junior engineers. The same thread cites @Yuchenj_UW, who says young AI talent now skips companies that still use LeetCode-style tests, and @rakyll, who would rather watch how candidates use coding agents. The snippet is cut off, so the full context is not visible.
According to a post on X by @felixrieseberg, the coding interview no longer gives useful signal, so he removed it from his team's hiring loops this month. He sees an opening for junior engineers. The same thread cites @Yuchenj_UW, who says young AI talent now skips companies that still use LeetCode-style tests, and @rakyll, who would rather watch how candidates use coding agents. The snippet is cut off, so the full context is not visible.
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Anthropic's @felixrieseberg says the coding interview no longer gives useful signal, so he removed it from his team's hiring loops this month, and he sees an opening for junior engineers. @Yuchenj_UW says young AI talent now skips companies that still use LeetCode-style tests, and @rakyll would rather watch how...
Hiring managers and recruiters who rely on LeetCode-style coding tests may need to rethink how they assess candidates. Junior engineers could benefit if teams follow this view, since the post points to an opening for them. Watch whether other teams drop these interviews and whether evaluations shift toward how candidates use coding agents.
Teams using AI at work may want to compare this against current productivity and review workflows.
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