Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

The first coding questions were the kind that test fundamentals quickly—things like finding the mode and median—followed by a system design question centered on an inference API. There was also a project discussion where I had to talk through my experience in a more detailed way, and then the hiring-manager culture fit interview where the focus was on alignment and how I described my motivations and perspectives.

On another part of this same style of loop, my technical system design experience was specifically about a 1–1 chat system where group chat wasn’t in scope. I had to think through