Anthropic·Software Engineer

Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process moved fast.

After applying, there was a recruiter phone screen, and then I jumped right into a systems design interview over the phone on a whiteboarding platform I was already familiar with. The recruiter and the early scheduling felt pleasant and responsive, so I was expecting the rest to be similar.

The systems design interview went sideways quickly. The interviewer came off rude and kept interrupting while I was still drawing a simple diagram and explaining what I was doing. As I tried to clarify assumptions and lay things out visually, the interviewer seemed to derail by revoking assumptions we’d

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