Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

I implemented operations like grayscale conversion, scaling, and resizing using a Python image library. The session also moved through larger images, and I could feel the time pressure building as the workload increased. The interviewer emphasized performance, and the conversation naturally turned to how to speed things up beyond just getting the transformations correct.

There was a follow-up around efficiency using multiprocessing, where I talked through why I’d choose that style of parallelism instead of threading. I also got into the practical details of whether the bottleneck was more