Software Engineer at Anthropic

The candidate applied directly through the company's careers page and was quickly contacted by a recruiter. The interview process included an initial recruiter screen, a phone design interview, and a five-round onsite focused on system design, coding, project discussion, behavioral questions, and a culture assessment. While the interviewers were described as pleasant and the process efficient, the technical bar was perceived as very high, and the coding round involved a practical project exercise rather than a typical algorithmic problem.