The creator of Anthropic's Claude Code likes to hire engineers who do 'side quests' like making kombucha

""These are the kind of people I enjoy working with," he said on "The Peterman Pod.""

""When I hire engineers, this is definitely something I look for," he said on " The Peterman Pod.""

""This is how we recruit for all functions, now," he said. "Our project managers code, our data scientists code, our user researcher codes a little bit.""

Anthropic prioritizes candidates who pursue side projects or “side quests” as a signal of curiosity and well-rounded interests, for example personal weekend projects like making kombucha. The company favors generalists who can code and also contribute to product, design, and user research, with project managers, data scientists, and user researchers writing some code. Claude Code has become a popular tool among engineers. The AI boom is shifting job requirements toward broader skill sets, familiarity with AI tools and models, and continued hands-on coding across multiple functions.

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