Anthropic interview notes, page 8 of 32

“Linear regression with varying sample count is the obvious setup and I went with it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Anthropic, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started okay talking about IO-bound vs CPU-bound as the core distinction, which it is.” 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 tripped me up more than I expected.” 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.

“Good opener to ease in, but it's a trap if you pick something too simple.” 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.

“Two stats in one problem.” 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.

“This tripped me up more than I expected.” 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 picked two projects but probably should've gone deeper on one.” 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 kind of question where you think you have a good answer until you start saying it out loud.” 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.

“The presentation part felt fine but the follow-up is where it gets real.” 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 naive approach of running a DFS per word is fine for small word lists but the problem explicitly says the list can be huge, up to 30k words.” 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.