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A Web Crawler Question That Turned Into a Late Multithreading Push

AnthropicSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025

Phone screen, and there's a problem on LeetCode that's almost identical to what they asked. Write a web crawler that only scrapes pages under the same hostname. The URL they gave me was for a real website (I think it might have been their CEO's blog?). The interview format was a bit different though — he didn't have me jump straight to writing multi-threaded code. You do it single-threaded first,…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.