Difficulty
Difficult
Candidate-reported interview insights
Anthropic Research Scientist interviews, decoded.
Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Research Scientist role at Anthropic.
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Interview overview
Average rounds
1.9
Average duration
~44 days
Difficulty and candidate experience
Interview difficulty
easy10%
average40%
difficult50%
Candidate experience
positive70%
neutral20%
negative10%
Candidate-reported interview process
Recruiter reached out and they contacted my references right away. Only after my references cleared, they sent me an OA, which I thought was pretty difficult. I solved 3 out of 4 questions and then they rejected me.
90 minute CodeSignal as the first step; 4 questions that get more complex. Typically you implement some toy "file system" or "package manager" or "bank app" or something like that; anthropic has a pretty interviewee-friendly version (no hidden test cases etc).
Coding screen in 4 sections. First couple parts were easy enough. It got harder as you go and you can’t move on to the next stage until all test cases pass. Sadly I didn’t reach the final stage because of one test case. My score was higher than what they said was needed but I still didn’t move forward.
Common Anthropic Research Scientist interview questions
A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.
- 1
Solve four progressively harder coding problems, typically implementing a toy file system, package manager, bank app, or similar system within CodeSignal.
- 2
Solve coding problems in an online CodeSignal screen similar to what you would actually work on.
- 3
Implement a banking app in Python from a provided scaffold.
- 4
Design a file system in four parts.
Interview question formats
Technical43.5%
Coding43.5%
Other8.7%
Behavioral4.3%
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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Anthropic.