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Perfect OA, Rejected at the ML Inference System Design Phone Screen

AnthropicSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

I bugged a former coworker for a referral, and then got rejected right at the phone screen. The round was a system design interview, a classic ML inference design question. I felt okay about it after the interview and don't know why I got rejected. There were a few points where I think I either matched what the interviewer wanted, or was way off. The interviewer gave basically no real-time feedba…

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