Anthropic interview notes, page 23 of 32

“My first instinct was to talk about flame graphs and where the most CPU time accumulates, but I second-guessed myself halfway through and started rambling about sampling frequency instead.” 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.

“The hardest part wasn't adding the endpoint itself.” 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.

“The silence from the interviewer made this so much harder than it needed to be.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the happy path, which was a mistake.” 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 started with market segmentation and positioning, which felt right, but I think I spent too long on the research phase and didn't get to the actual go-to-market mechanics until they nudged me.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question is way broader than it looks.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer 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.

“Spent the first few minutes just thinking about the naive approach where the source pushes to each host sequentially, which obviously falls apart at scale.” 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 high-level design part was fine but then they drilled into the CPU/GPU imbalance scenario and I kind of fumbled.” 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.

“This is where I stumbled.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“This is the whole interview, basically.” 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.