Anthropic

Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

September 19, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Remote interviews focused on programming live and systems design.

Interviewers were polite, sometimes aloof, and some were friendly. It seemed like there is an intense work culture, based on the soft questions.

Questions

Design a file cache system.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 30 interview experiences for the Anthropic Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive30%

Neutral23%

Negative47%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Anthropic's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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