Anthropic·Software Engineer

Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started with an automated interview, then a coding interview, followed by five onsite rounds.

Those onsite components included coding, a project discussion, system design, culture fit, and a final hiring manager interview.

Everything went fairly smoothly until that last step. The hiring manager interview was the worst experience I’d ever had in an interview setting—rude, dismissive, and mocking. The irony was that the culture interview before it had put a strong emphasis on ethics and tone, which made the contrast feel jarring.

Other people I met were friendly and positive throughout the process, which made that final interview stand out even more. Even though I wasn’t offered the

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