The Pulse: Anthropic kills the coding interview

Anthropic has removed coding questions from its software engineering hiring process after a team found DSA interviews gave zero signal, and the rest of the company and other AI-native startups could follow. The roundup also covers incident.io cutting AI spend from $4,500 to $1,600 per developer per month, Amazon adding AI usage to SDE and SDM expectations, and Microsoft offering 60,000 employees exit packages by year-end.