THE PRACTICE LIBRARY
Anthropic interview practice questions
Practise explaining AI infrastructure decisions, uncertainty and the consequences of your choices. Use the system briefs below to work through latency, capacity and failure, then rehearse a story about your own judgment.
Think it through.
Say it out loud.
A practice collection for Anthropic, with sourced system-design associations and general behavioral exercises. It is not an official question list.
13 questionsPick one to begin
- 01Disagree with a teammateCollaborationPractise
- 02Learn from a failureLearning from failurePractise
- 03Design ChatGPTAI systemsPractise
- 04Design a distributed key-value storeInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 05Design an LLM inference batching serviceAI systemsPractise
- 06Design peer-to-peer file distributionInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 07Design a web crawlerSearch and autocompletePractise
- 08Lead without authorityInfluencePractise
- 09Take ownership of a problemOwnershipPractise
- 10Make progress with unclear requirementsDealing with ambiguityPractise
- 11Deliver under a tight deadlineDelivering resultsPractise
- 12Act on difficult customer feedbackCustomer focusPractise
- 13Make a difficult trade-offJudgementPractise
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Pick a question
Read the brief and choose what you want to work on.
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Talk it through
Explain your thinking. Respond to follow-ups. Draw when a design needs it.
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Find your next improvement
Use the feedback from your interview to decide what to practise next.