Anthropic·Software Engineer

Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ran into a coding interview that was clearly structured into multiple parts, and the pacing made it hard to finish.

The interviewer even asked directly whether I was confident choosing Java for the task, and then the problem centered on iterating through IP ranges—similar in spirit to a known practice problem, but with added differences. I worked through part of it successfully, but I didn’t complete all the later parts before time ran out.

What stood out was how the interview expectation felt like full completion across the numbered segments, not just getting one piece to work. The follow-ups and overall tempo pushed me to move quickly while still keeping the logic correct, and I felt I fell short on

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