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Technical Screen on Designing a P2P Model Downloader

AnthropicSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

The question was about downloading a model. It went so-so, even though the question itself was actually the simplest version of it. The main issue was that download and upload shared a 10Gbps bandwidth cap — not sure if the interviewer just picked that number randomly. The main problem was that early on I spent a lot of time performing — working through and explaining the optimal algorithm. I'd a…

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