Anthropic interview notes, page 19 of 32

“The tricky part isn't describing the failure, it's the third piece.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Anthropic, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Wasn't expecting this from an engineering interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one sprawled in every direction.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The core of it is just aggregating per account and then sorting, but I spent too long second-guessing whether 'total' meant net or absolute.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question that sounds broad but they clearly want you to get concrete fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Anthropic, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is basically a 'design everything' prompt and the scope is genuinely intimidating.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight into RLHF and red-teaming, which felt right but also kind of obvious for Anthropic of all places.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Anthropic, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Not a lot I can add here since the original post was pretty sparse.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the hashmap plus doubly linked list approach going in, which helped.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the obvious stuff, thread pool, a shared visited set, a work queue.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.