Anthropic·Software Engineer

Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I barely got started and still ended up rejected.

After applying, I received an email that my application looked promising and I was sent a CodeSignal assignment. I completed it, and then I got an email back saying I did very well.

Despite that positive result, I was rejected anyway, and it happened without any interview rounds at all. There wasn’t a conversation, a technical screen, or a chance to explain my thinking—just an automated-feeling gate that decided my path.

The outcome was a clear no offer, but the process left me with the unsettling feeling that the system could recognize strong work while still not moving forward. It was

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