Anthropic

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

December 1, 2024

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone interview: coding

Onsite: 5 rounds - 2 coding, 1 culture fit, 1 system design, and 1 HM.

I was rejected in 2 days. The questions were simple (I did a lot of preparation) and I answered all of them. I really don't know what they want to hire. The bar is crazy high!

Questions

Pay attention to multithreading for phone interviews.

Onsite questions are related to the filesystem.

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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