Anthropic Has to Keep Revising its Technical Interview Test as Claude Improves
Anthropic struggles to keep its hiring test ahead of its own AI—Claude keeps acing it, forcing constant redesigns.
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Anthropic Has to Keep Revising its Technical Interview Test as Claude Improves
Anthropic’s AI Hiring Test Keeps Getting Outsmarted by Claude Anthropic, the AI safety-focused company behind the Claude large language models, is facing a uniquely ironic problem: its own AI keeps passing its technical hiring exams. Since 2024, the company’s performance optimization team has used a take-home coding challenge to vet job applicants—but as Claude has grown smarter, so too has the risk of AI-assisted cheating. Now, even top human candidates can’t consistently outperform the model, prompting Anthropic to overhaul its assessment strategy entirely. Credit: Anthropic This isn’t just a quirky tech anecdote. It’s a real-world case study in how generative AI is reshaping professional evaluation—and why traditional hiring methods may no longer work in an era where AI co-pilots are smarter than many humans. The Original Test Worked—Until Claude Got Too Good When Anthropic first rolled out its take-home assignment, it was designed to measure deep systems knowledge: optimizing low-level…
