Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

When the coding task started, the first thing that struck me was that the assigned problem didn’t seem related to the role I’d been discussing.

Still, I completed the task within the time limit. Afterward I received an automated rejection email that felt obviously generic—it mentioned reapplying in the future and congratulated me as if I were the one who had applied originally, which didn’t fit because I hadn’t.

Even though I finished the interview, the way the decision came through felt impersonal and off, leaving me with the impression that the process didn’t fully sync up with the