Anthropic Full Stack Engineer interview experience

I had a recruiter call, then a live coding challenge, then moved into a virtual onsite with another coding challenge, a systems design interview, an “experience and goals” conversation, and a culture fit discussion.

The technical rounds leaned on generic computer science topics that didn’t seem tightly connected to the job itself. The recruiter prep call also wasn’t reliably accurate about what would show up during the interviews, so I ended up treating it as only partially helpful. The most meaningful conversation for me was the “experience and goals” discussion since it was the only one