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Technical Coding Screen

First full round · see where you stand

Software Engineer · Anthropic60 min planned

Set up the room

We’ve set it up the way we’d suggest. Change what you like; we’ll tell you if a choice makes the feedback less useful.

Length

This practice round is 60 minutes.

Problem

Based on how this company interviews.

Difficulty

Senior, as planned for this job.

Who runs it

Someone you trust can take the interviewer seat.

How you’ll talk

Use voice for spoken practice, or text for a written conversation.

Hints while you work

A coach can nudge you privately. It never reaches your feedback.

The brief, in short

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Expect to be pushed on

Add repeated, empty, or deeply nested samples.
Ask for a lower-memory approach and its tradeoffs.
Change output ordering and test the state model.

Do

  • State invariants before writing code.
  • Write the simple path, then perform a verbal manual dry-run.
  • Use lookup for forgotten library details, not basic syntax.

Avoid

  • Starting with optimization before defining event semantics.
  • Claiming correctness without tracing shared prefixes and final state.
  • Relying on execution instead of explaining the written code.

Why this round, now

You picked this round yourself, so there’s no suggestion attached to it.

What we’re watching this round

Clarifies sample meaning, event ordering, malformed input, and required output before coding.

Done when

Finish the full 60-minute round at their level.

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Technical Coding Screen · 60 minWatching for: Clarifies sample meaning, event ordering, malformed input, and required output before coding.