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Anthropic Software Engineer Interview Experience

Anthropic · Staff

ResultIn progress
Timespan—
DifficultyMedium
Rounds2

Interview process

The system design interview was a bit different than the typical ones, it asked me to review an existing design doc and give feedback.

Initially I was a bit uncertain, but was able to navigate the doc and point out a few issues, then it becomes a typical deep dive session on failure handling, overload protection.

Interview rounds · 2

  1. 1

    Recruiter screen

    Behavioral
    1. Q1. Why do you want to work at Anthropic?
  2. 2

    Phone screen

    System Design
    1. Q1. Design Doc Review - Batch Sampling Service

Tips from the candidate

Prepare on the culture fit questions with real experience. Have a deep understanding of the LLM inference stack and the failure scenarios.

Company culture

From the Recruiter chat, it sounds like they care a lot about the culture fit, asking a lot deeper on why you want to work at anthropic, whether you agree with the culture.

Details

CompanyAnthropic
RoleSoftware Engineer
LevelStaff
LocationUnited States
InterviewedAug 2026
Questions asked2