RejectedOnsite

OA, a Python LRU Cache Phone Screen, and Rejection After a Full Onsite

AnthropicSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Mar 2026

Posting my Anthropic interview from a while back. I felt like I nailed everything. The culture round and the hiring manager round also went okay. In the end I still didn't pass. It feels way too arbitrary. (Maybe my background just wasn't a great match — I was interviewing for a billing platform team, but I've never worked on payments.) OA - recipe manager Phone screen - coding Q2 - LRU cache, th…

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