Senior/Staff SWE, Inferencing Interview Experience

I applied, and did a normal recruiter screen followed by a coding phone screen. After I passed that, hiring paused for the team, and then time passed until a different recruiter picked me back up for a virtual onsite. My onsite was a coding round, a system design round, a hiring manager round, a culture round, and a one-person technical presentation. At the time the question bank was small enough that I basically knew the kinds of questions coming, but Anthropic was one of my first loops, so I wasn't as sharpened as I should have been. I got pretty close but didn't get the offer, and my read is that the system design round hurt me the most.

I applied, and did a normal recruiter screen followed by a coding phone screen. After I passed that, hiring paused for the team, and then time passed until a different recruiter picked me back up for a virtual onsite. My onsite was a coding round, a system design round, a hiring manager round, a culture round, and a one-person technical presentation. At the time the question bank was small enough that I basically knew the kinds of questions coming, but Anthropic was one of my first loops, so I wasn't as sharpened as I should have been. I got pretty close but didn't get the offer, and my read is that the system design round hurt me the most.