Anthropic removes Leetcode-style coding interview from its hiring process

Anthropic has deleted the Leetcode-style coding interview from its hiring loop, saying AI has made the format pointless. The report also covers incident.io's AI spending and Microsoft's exit offers to engineers.

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2026-10-30 16:37 · The Pragmatic Engineer
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