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An Extra LRU Cache Round After Admitting I'd Seen the First One Before

AnthropicSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Aug 2025

Overall the questions weren't hard, but there was a lot of code to write. The phone screen was one coding round — they asked the file deduplication problem (Q2), done in Replit. The onsite ended up being 5 rounds total; it was originally supposed to be 4, and they added one more later: Round 1 (Coding): asked about the web crawler problem (Q1). The interviewer asked if I'd seen a similar question…

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