Infrastructure Software Engineer Interview Experience

I interviewed for an infrastructure software engineer role that was basically staff-scoped even though the title stayed generic. The process was a recruiter screen, a live coding phone screen, then two onsite loops: system design, coding, culture, and later experiences/goals plus a technical project deep dive. The phone screen was the only question I had seen before online. Everything else felt genuinely novel and very tied to GPU infrastructure and Anthropic's safety culture. The culture interview in particular was unusually interrogative, and they even warned me in advance that some questions might make me uncomfortable. I felt strongest in the project deep dive and weakest in the later coding round.

I interviewed for an infrastructure software engineer role that was basically staff-scoped even though the title stayed generic. The process was a recruiter screen, a live coding phone screen, then two onsite loops: system design, coding, culture, and later experiences/goals plus a technical project deep dive. The phone screen was the only question I had seen before online. Everything else felt genuinely novel and very tied to GPU infrastructure and Anthropic's safety culture. The culture interview in particular was unusually interrogative, and they even warned me in advance that some questions might make me uncomfortable. I felt strongest in the project deep dive and weakest in the later coding round.