Difficulty
Difficult
Candidate-reported interview insights
Anthropic Research Engineer interviews, decoded.
Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Research Engineer role at Anthropic.
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Interview overview
Average rounds
1.1
Average duration
15.7 day average
Difficulty and candidate experience
Interview difficulty
easy12.5%
average25%
difficult62.5%
Candidate experience
positive37.5%
neutral37.5%
negative25%
Candidate-reported interview process
Coding test then a technical interview over video call. The coding test itself wasn’t super technically difficult and didn’t really need algorithmic knowledge or anything, but it *was* quite a lot to do in the 90 mins and had some slightly fiddly/complicated logic that needed to be implemented.
Applied to an online opening, got the take-home coding assessment after a couple of weeks and then a rejection shortly after finishing the assessment. Reached the third level (out of four) in the assessment.
Applied online, then they sent me a CodeSignal test to complete in 90 minutes. Debugging experience on the platform is pretty bad, which made me confused about what the code was doing and that wasted a lot of time, so I couldn't finish. If you get stuck debugging something for a bit you probably will run out of time.
Common Anthropic Research Engineer interview questions
A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.
- 1
How would you handle a four-step coding task where later steps might require refactoring earlier code under tight time constraints
- 2
Implement a component that can compute data metrics and return the top k accounts by outgoing money.
- 3
How do you approach debugging code efficiently when the debugging tools or environment are limited
- 4
Design a feature to merge two accounts while preserving their separate transaction histories.
Interview question formats
Technical53.3%
Coding40%
System Design6.7%
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