Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

After that, the later stages ramped up into an onsite loop. The onsite ended up being four interviews: one coding interview, one discussion centered on software design, and two behavioral conversations. It felt like they were trying to cover both how I write and reason about code and how I operate as a colleague.

What really stood out to me was how seriously they treated references. Once I made it to references, it didn’t feel like a formality at all. The team seemed to take it very seriously, and I remember thinking hard about who I put down since I’d already cleared so many steps.

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