RejectedTechnical Screen

Forced Into Single-Threaded Code, Then Rejected

AnthropicTechnical Screen · Jan 2026

I recently did a phone screen with Anthropic. I actually had a lot of goodwill toward this company going in, but the interview experience was extremely bad — I felt like the interviewer led me straight into a trap. Writing this to recap what happened, and also to ask everyone here for advice: when you run into an unprofessional interviewer during an interview, how do you save yourself? And is the…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jan 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.