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On October 27, 2026, Anthropic hiring manager Felix Rieseberg said he stopped giving coding interviews. Here's what he looks at instead, why it isn't company policy, what ZipRecruiter's employer data shows, and how to prepare for both kinds of hiring loop.

Microsoft opened a Voluntary Exit Offer to employees at level 70 and below in four countries, and about 60,000 people are reportedly eligible. Here's what's confirmed, what's only reported, what the 10-K numbers show, and what engineers inside and outside Microsoft should do about it.

Anthropic's IPO prospectus puts numbers on how its own engineers work: over 90% of code contributions written by Claude, 45 times more code per engineer than in 2024, and a headcount that still grew more than five times. Here's what it shows, what it doesn't, and what to do about it.

Claude Code's creator says he no longer writes prompts. We checked the claim against the research, explain how loops work in Claude step by step, and grade the criticism fairly.

A new arXiv study ran Claude Code and Codex CLI 320 times on projects where the instruction file disagreed with the code. Here are the results by agent, the exact sentence that fixed it, and what the study doesn't show.

What software engineers earn by level, metro, country and work arrangement, from BLS wages, Stack Overflow 2026 microdata and Levels.fyi, with an interactive explorer to find your own range.