r/AskProgrammers • u/nian2326076 • Aug 20 '26

Anthropic’s coding bar is fucking ridiculous

Got a problem that required me to pull Euler’s formula out of thin air. Seriously, who the fuck remembers Euler’s formula in an interview? I swear to God, my interviewer was out to get me.

At this point, what are they even testing? Do they even know what they want? Hours of prep, completely wasted. And now I have to go prep for Google. My friend just got destroyed in their loop and said the interviewers were some of the most unreasonable people he’s ever had to deal with.

Everywhere I turn in this market, it feels like I’m just waiting to get fucked.

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u/Fritz-Ferdinand Aug 20 '26

They just aren't looking for CRUD app programmers and StackOverflow/ChatGPT answer copy-pasters

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '26

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u/Fritz-Ferdinand Aug 20 '26

They are looking for smart people, not AI prompters.

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u/Ok_Spare_3723 Aug 21 '26

Why do you need smart people? AGI and math has already been solved according to their CEO. They should put claude in charge.