Anthropic interview prep
Forward Deployed, Applied AI, inference and ML engineering.
What Anthropic says: Four phases: the application, take-home assessments, interview preparation and live interviews. No AI help in take-homes or live interviews unless Anthropic says otherwise. AI is welcome for preparation. Their page
The rounds
As candidates report them. Rounds and their order vary by team, so check with your recruiter.
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Final rounds
Screens
- Coding test90 minutes, 4 levelsA stateful build that grows each levelNo case yet
Final rounds
- ValuesConversationMission, AI risk, changing your mindNo case yet
Cases
10questions
Are you ready? Readiness check
3 partsearlier tests keep passing
Build a continuous-batching scheduler with paged KV memory
Same seedsame text
A reproducible sampler with top-k, top-p and speculative acceptance
24,000authorizations a second
Score card payments inside a 40 ms budget
140action codes, live
Live call assist on four GPUs
168files of 5 GB
Ship an 840 GB checkpoint to 1,536 hosts
3 weeksto launch
Review a teammate's design doc for a streaming API
2 weeksbefore launch
Review a design doc: a maintenance agent for 38,000 apartments
Same role, other companies
These rounds come up at other companies hiring for the same work.
800 msfirst token, p95
Serve a 70B coding assistant at 400 requests a second
Halfthe time GPUs look idle
Run RL fine-tuning for a 32B model on 256 GPUs
GQAwith RoPE, in NumPy
Fix the attention layer, then add a KV cache
5 daysto send it
Take-home: make a slow inference server fast
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