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Distributed Coding, AI Safety, and Hardware Reasoning

AnthropicSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Mar 2026

The author describes four interviews for an infrastructure-oriented Anthropic role. Distributed coding covered mode and median computation using supplied messaging interfaces, with attention to partitioning and communication costs. A separate programming exercise converted sampled call stacks into function events and explored recursion and limited recent-history data. The culture discussion consi…

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