Anthropic

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

April 1, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied and received an email stating they “thought my application was quite promising.” They sent me a CodeSignal assignment. After I completed it, they replied with an email saying I did very well but was being rejected anyway. This all happened without a single interview.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Anthropic Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Anthropic's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral0%

Negative33%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Anthropic's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

Anthropic Interview Questions

Web Crawler Multithreaded

Medium

Implement a multithreaded web crawler to efficiently explore and retrieve pages from a website, respecting the website's rules.

GraphsRecursionDynamic Programming

Find Duplicate File in System

Medium

You are given file paths and their content. Find and return groups of duplicate files based on their content.

ArraysStrings

Web Crawler

Medium

Simulate a web crawler to visit a website and collect webpages following specific rules. You'll need to avoid revisiting pages and stay within the same domain.

Graphs