After the Online Assessment, I had two Virtual Onsite rounds, each lasting one hour. **Round 1:** The interviewer was an SDE. The interviewer was very friendly, supportive, and chill. I spent about 40 minutes answering behavioral questions. The next 20 minutes...
I was given two coding questions: 1. Given an array, I can perform two operations: (1) move the first element to the last position, or (2) flip the entire array. The goal is to find the minimum number of steps to transform the given array into a sorted array....
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San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Full Journey
Multiple Types
8/10 difficulty
I'm sharing my interview experience at Anthropic. The process was more focused on AI scenarios than I expected. Overall, it was smooth, but the difficulty was high. **Recruiter Screen:** I had been a heavy user of Claude and had studied its product logic. I se...
01
San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Phone Screen
Coding
8/10 difficulty
**Round 1:** I was given a set of node groups (e.g., `[[1],[2,3],[4,5,6]]`) and had to connect all groups into a connected graph. The connection method was to randomly select one node from two different groups and create an edge. The requirement was to connect...
01
San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Full Journey
Multiple Types
4/10 difficulty
I had three rounds of interviews for a software engineer position. **Round 1:** The coding question involved creating a file system. It was a straightforward problem, and I completed it quickly in 45 minutes. The remainder of the time was spent in casual conve...
05
Los Angeles, CA, US
Jan 15, 2026
Phone Screen
Coding
8/10 difficulty
I interviewed for a software engineer position. In the coding round, the interviewer presented a problem involving a name to configuration metadata mapping. Given a JSON query, the task was to return configurations that matched the query criteria. The metadata...
01
San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Phone Screen
Coding
6/10 difficulty
The first question was LeetCode 92, with a follow-up to modify it in-place. The second question was a verbal problem: Given a sorted array, where each index represents a different person, and each element at the index is a tuple of (timestamp, 'enter' or 'exit...
00
San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Online Assessment
Coding
6/10 difficulty
I recently prepared for Meta's interview, and the Online Assessment (OA) used CodeSignal's Industry Coding Framework (ICF). I've compiled materials and questions from various sources (this forum, Reddit, Blind) to share with others. I hope this is helpful for...
00
San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Onsite
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
I was contacted by a recruiter in late February. The process was slow, with about a month between each step. **Phone Screen:** * I was asked LeetCode 65. * I was also asked the second coding question from the 12/4 coding challenge from a post. **Virtual Onsite...
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San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Onsite
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
**Phone Screen (Coding):** I was asked to write a web crawler. First, I implemented a single-threaded version. After discussing it, I was asked to implement a multi-threaded version. **Onsite (Coding):** I had to implement a classic data deduplication system....