tech
January 22, 2026
Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test so you can't cheat on it with Claude
Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.
TL;DR
- Anthropic's take-home coding test has been repeatedly redesigned since 2024 to counter AI-assisted cheating.
- New AI models, such as Claude Opus 4 and 4.5, have surpassed human performance on the test.
- The current test format makes it impossible to differentiate between top human candidates and AI output.
- Anthropic developed a new test with novel problems to stump contemporary AI tools.
- The team is seeking better solutions and has shared the original test for public input.