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A Surprise Extra Round, Then a Downlevel to Senior

AnthropicSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Sep 2025

Overall the problems weren't hard, but there was a lot of code to write. The phone screen was one round of coding — they asked the file deduplication problem (Q2), done on Replit. The onsite (VO) had 5 rounds total — it was originally supposed to be 4, but they added one more afterward: Round 1, Coding: asked the web crawler question (Q1). The interviewer asked if I'd seen a similar problem befor…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.