Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

I prepared for about a week on CodeSignal, and even then it felt like the preparation was a bit inefficient compared to how much typing the actual assignment demanded.

The task was an employee working hour tracking system with promotions and salary calculations. The problem itself wasn’t conceptually impossible, but the amount of implementation and the number of details I had to express made it feel heavier than “just coding.” I tried to keep my approach clean, like using good method names and breaking things into sub-functions, and I worked through it with incremental debugging using test