RejectedOnsite

Rejected After a Weak System Design Round

AnthropicSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026

Phone screen: a file. Onsite: Coding: image processing. System design: prompt playground. This round was probably my weakest performance — I hadn't crammed on enough interview experiences beforehand, and I hadn't written much down in my own doc. On one or two questions I walked right into the interviewer's trap. Pay attention to some low-level details here — that's also something I hadn't taken v…

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