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“The interview went very well, the interviewers were very nice. They don't ask questions out of the scope, they were very helpful and supportive. The communication was key in taking the interview, there was an area I have been asked about, showing eagerness to learn was enough for the interviewer. But, of course, I had to show solid skills in other areas. I learned from this interview that it isn't over until it's over, do not give up mid interview, just carry on answering to the best of your ability.”
“The interview loop was definitely more AI/ML focused than software focused. There was no leetcode really, but I did have to write a simple KNN algorithm from scratch.”
“The overall interview process was well-structured and organized. The interviewers were professional, friendly, and gave me sufficient time to think through problems and discuss my approach. I appreciated that the rounds covered a good mix of coding, design, and behavioral topics, allowing me to demonstrate both technical depth and problem-solving skills. What went well was the technical discussion around system design and real-world engineering challenges. The interviewers encouraged clarifying questions and were interested in understanding my thought process, trade-off analysis, and experience operating large-scale systems. The coding problems were relevant and allowed for meaningful follow-up discussions around optimization and scalability. One area that could have gone better was time management during some of the coding rounds. While I arrived at correct solutions, I spent more time than expected discussing edge cases and alternative approaches, which left less time for implementation refinements and testing. In hindsight, I could have balanced exploration and execution more effectively. Overall, it was a positive experience. The process felt fair, technically challenging, and reflective of the engineering problems one would encounter in the role. I also enjoyed interacting with the interviewers and learning more about the team's work and technical challenges.”
“Initially considered for IC6 but performed poorly in the system design so got down-leveled to IC5. For IC6 consider how your system interacts with other systems.”
“The whole process was smooth for me, prepared well from meta tagged leetcode questions and for system design hello interview was more than enough”
“The process was straightforward and moved pretty quickly. I had to download an external app to do the video-call interviews. The questions were standard product questions and the interviewers seemed to be going through the motions (i.e. not particularly prepped).”
“Got a verbal offer but didn't match to the original team. I did eventually get matched to the next team, so don't give up if you get a verbal offer”
“Coding focussed with focus on leetcode style problems. The design prompts are simple and abstract like design netflix or design instagram, etc. It is upto you to drive design discussion and this round decides leveling”
“Comparatively easy, but took a lot of time to complete the process. Keep your calm and you should be good.”
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“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
