Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

I wasn’t able to pass all the tests on the first attempt and ended up with a high score, just not a full one. I still had three test cases remaining, so I knew I was close—but not enough.

After that, they emailed me again to do one more coding assessment with a different set of four parts. I couldn’t complete the third part in that round either, and eventually I received a rejection.

The process felt like a series of increasingly specific “finish this exact thing” hurdles. I left with the sense that being near the top wasn’t the same as clearing the finish line, and the second assessment