I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Anthropic in June 2023
Interview
They are having growing pains. Didn't talk to any person. Applied online and was sent a no-reply message with CodeSignal link. You are given 90 minutes to complete 4 parts of a coding exercise, increasing in complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code a banking system with several parts of different criteria. Object oriented. One gotcha was returning n accounts with most total transactions (deposits and withdrawls), need an algo for ranking system. Part 3 was hard. Make sure transfer is accepted before doing funds transfer.
They sent me an automated CodeSignal test before I ever spoke to a human, which consisted of 4 stages of the same problem with each stage getting progressively more complex. Did not progress beyond this stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They sent me an automated CodeSignal test before I ever spoke to a human, which consisted of 4 stages of the same problem with each stage getting progressively more complex. Did not progress beyond this stage.
The interview loop at Anthropic is completely different from the standard FAANG pipeline. They do not care about your ability to speed run algorithms. The entire process is built around "First Principles" thinking and writing extremely robust and safe code. After the recruiter screen, I had a deep dive pair programming session with an engineer. It felt much more like a collaborative work session than a test. They want to see how you handle edge cases and system failures in real time. I was asked to build a reliable message ingestion component that could handle streaming data with unpredictable latency spikes.
Applied online, had an initial recruiter screen and a few technical rounds. Did not make it to onsite. Questions were pretty difficult and thoughtful, different than typical coding and system designs online.
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