Anthropic Interview Questions and Guide
Multi-stage practical coding that builds on itself, strong systems fundamentals, and thoughtful discussion of safety and values.
The Anthropic interview loop
- Recruiter screen
- Online or live coding assessment
- Onsite: coding, system design, project deep dive, culture & values
Anthropic interview questions
- Design a Web Crawler
- Design a Chat LLM Serving Platform
- Design ChatGPT Playground
- Design a Batch Inference System
- Design ML Model Distribution
- Design a Data Labeling Platform
- In-Memory Database (Multi-Part)
- Time-Based Key-Value Store
- Walk me through your most impactful project
- Why do you want to work here?
- Tell me about a time you had to learn something new quickly
- What questions do you have for me?
- Tell me about something you learned outside your job that made you better at it
- Tell me about creating structure in a chaotic situation
- Tell me about a time you changed your mind
- Tell me about a time you gave difficult feedback to a peer
- What part of our culture would be hardest for you?
- Tell me about a time your values were tested at work
- Tell me about a time you balanced speed against safety
- Why do you want to work on AI?
- Tell me about a time your first impression was wrong
- Teach me something you recently learned
- Extend an Unfamiliar Codebase with AI
- Debug a Failing Test Suite with AI
- Build a Small App from a Spec with AI