Company profile
Anthropic
Anthropic is the AI safety company behind Claude, the Anthropic API, and Claude Code. The loop is famously rigorous - a multi-hour take-home, deep system design and ML rounds, and a values-alignment interview where candidates are expected to argue clearly about responsible scaling and safety tradeoffs.
The Anthropic interview process
Anthropic runs a rigorous loop with a substantial take-home, deep system design and ML rounds, and a values-alignment interview. The take-home is multi-hour and realistic, and the alignment conversation expects you to reason clearly about responsible scaling and safety tradeoffs rather than recite talking points.
- 1
Recruiter and manager
Background and motivation for safety-focused work.
- 2
Take-home
A realistic, multi-hour engineering exercise.
- 3
Technical onsite
System design and ML or coding depth, depending on team.
- 4
Values and alignment
Reasoning about responsible scaling and safety tradeoffs.
What Anthropic is looking for
What they value
- Careful, well-argued thinking about tradeoffs
- Strong engineering depth applied to real tasks
- Sincerity about the mission and its risks
Culture signals in the loop
- Treating AI safety as a first-order concern
- Clear, honest reasoning over confident hand-waving
- Cooperation and low ego in hard discussions
Questions and process by role
Anthropic hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- ML engineer
ML engineer interview questions and process at Anthropic.
engineering - AI engineer
AI engineer interview questions and process at Anthropic.
ai - AI infrastructure engineer
AI infrastructure engineer interview questions and process at Anthropic.
ai - AI red team engineer
AI red team engineer interview questions and process at Anthropic.
ai - AI research engineer
AI research engineer interview questions and process at Anthropic.
research - MLOps engineer
MLOps engineer interview questions and process at Anthropic.
ai - Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Anthropic.
engineering - Analytics engineer
Analytics engineer interview questions and process at Anthropic.
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Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Anthropic's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Anthropic offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Anthropic holds a 4.4 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 4.4