Anthropic·Software Engineer

Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a practical, task-based interview where I was given images and a list of functions to apply—things like transforms, rotations, and greyscale.

The work itself felt fairly straightforward, but the catch was that it wasn’t just about writing isolated functions. I had to connect everything end to end to get it to run correctly.

The interviewer was interactive and kept pushing the difficulty gradually, stepping through it level by level and adding more layers of complexity as I went. Overall it didn’t feel like a trick, more like an incremental check of whether I could implement and integrate the pieces carefully under light pressure. I ended up getting an offer from that process, and it made the whole loop feel more constructive than

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