Present a shipped project you led end-to-end.

"I applied and they called me the next day, which was faster than anything else I have seen. The process was a recruiter screen, a 55 minute phone screen, and then a five-interview final loop with no take-home, all done remotely even though the role was SF-based. The most unusual parts were that the recruiter gave me actual feedback between rounds and that the EM system design was really a critique of a prebuilt Anthropic-style inference design, not a blank-sheet design. Across the whole loop, they cared a lot more about my resume, project decisions, management style, and culture than coding or AI trivia. I ended up getting rejected, and the written feedback was that my people-management round did not show the depth they were looking for."

"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."