Anthropic Software Engineer Interview Questions

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You have one huge file coming in over a constrained link. How do you distribute it to thousands of machines?
2 months ago6 answers
Design an inference batching system for a single GPU that can handle up to 100 inputs per batch while users wait synchronously, maximizing utilization under compute constraints.
+12 months ago4 answers
Tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone. How did you resolve it and what did you learn?
+2324 days ago36 answers
Tell me about yourself. Has video answer
+714 days ago126 answers
Implement an LRU cache with serialization and evolving constraints.
8 months ago
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Implement LRU Cache.
+252 months ago36 answers
How do you prioritize tasks?
+172 months ago73 answers
Design a file cache system.
a year ago
Tell me about a time when you received negative feedback and how you handled it.
+112 months ago11 answers
Build a web crawler with multi-threading.
3 months ago
Design a peer-to-peer file distribution system that spreads a 10GB file from a single bandwidth-constrained source to thousands of interconnected hosts, each with limited input/output bandwidth, until every machine has the file.
9 months ago
Why do you want to work at Anthropic?
3 months ago
Design an API to let users sample from large language models efficiently, with good batching and request orchestration.
2 months ago
Design an end-to-end batching system for LLM queries.
2 months ago
Code an image-processing pipeline that reads per-image instruction files and applies ordered transformations (e.g., rotate, invert, crop, convert) to large sets of images of varying sizes across multiple folders.
9 months ago
Tell me about a time when you faced a conflict while on a team.
+73 months ago5 answers
How would you explain a technical concept to a non-technical person?
+13 months ago2 answers
Design a web crawler. Has video answer
+22 months ago10 answers
What Gen AI skills do you think will be critical in the next year?
2 months ago
Define hallucinations in LLMs.
2 months ago4 answers

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Anthropic Software Engineer Interview Questions

You have one huge file coming in over a constrained link. How do you distribute it to thousands of machines?

Design an inference batching system for a single GPU that can handle up to 100 inputs per batch while users wait synchronously, maximizing utilization under compute constraints.

Tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone. How did you resolve it and what did you learn?

Tell me about yourself. Has video answer

Implement an LRU cache with serialization and evolving constraints.

Implement LRU Cache.

How do you prioritize tasks?

Design a file cache system.

Tell me about a time when you received negative feedback and how you handled it.

Build a web crawler with multi-threading.

Design a peer-to-peer file distribution system that spreads a 10GB file from a single bandwidth-constrained source to thousands of interconnected hosts, each with limited input/output bandwidth, until every machine has the file.

Why do you want to work at Anthropic?

Design an API to let users sample from large language models efficiently, with good batching and request orchestration.

Design an end-to-end batching system for LLM queries.

Code an image-processing pipeline that reads per-image instruction files and applies ordered transformations (e.g., rotate, invert, crop, convert) to large sets of images of varying sizes across multiple folders.

Tell me about a time when you faced a conflict while on a team.

How would you explain a technical concept to a non-technical person?

Design a web crawler. Has video answer

What Gen AI skills do you think will be critical in the next year?

Define hallucinations in LLMs.

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