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Anthropic interview preparation
Anthropic
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Know what it looks for.
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, creator of Claude.
What we know about Anthropic
- 10 audio episodes, about 2 hours of listening, 1 free
- System design round: 60 minutes
- Project deep dive round
- Read from 1 source
- Mock interviews for every round, with a written report
Your preparation, in four steps
Take them in order, or start where you need help most.
What Anthropic's rounds look like
System design at Anthropic
- Length
- 60 minutes
- Tool
- Excalidraw
Known to ask
- Design ChatGPT
- Design an LLM inference batching service
- Design a distributed search system for 1 billion documents at 1 million QPS, covering sharding, caching and LLM inference scaling
- Design APIs for developers to access Anthropic's AI models securely and efficiently
- Design a web crawler
- Design a file cache system
From Anthropic's hiring pages and candidate reports, read 2026-10-29.
The project deep dive at Anthropic
- Called
- Hiring manager screen
What they press on
- Why you made specific architectural choices
- What you would do differently in hindsight
- Genuine ownership, not just executing someone else's plan
- Decision points, such as why this database or approach over the alternatives
- Tradeoffs you accepted
From Anthropic's hiring pages and candidate reports, read 2026-10-29.
What our brief for Anthropic draws on
- Our notesCompany knowledge baseread October 28, 2026
Our interviewer, resume writer and Story Bank use what we learned from these, in our own words.