Anthropic
No AI assistance in live interviews or take-home assessments unless told otherwise. Using AI to prepare is encouraged.
Anthropic publishes its guidance for candidates. It asks you to draft your own application and use Claude to refine it, to do take-home work without Claude unless the instructions say otherwise, and to do live interviews without AI assistance unless told otherwise. It encourages using Claude to research the company and practice.
Sources last checked 2026-10-10.
Live rounds without AI assistance. Every round below has the assistant closed.
- 01A standard coding roundCoding, no assistantOne problem and an interviewer, with no assistant.
- 02checkout — Two Pricing DefectseasyDebug only, assistant closedReading and fixing unfamiliar code unaided.
- 03PR #507 — Cache permission checkshardCode reviewA hard code review: find and rank real defects by reading alone.
- 04System designSystem designReasoning about trade-offs aloud, which no tool does for you.
These are Placed's own practice rounds, chosen for the kind of round described above. They are not Anthropic's questions and Placed is not affiliated with Anthropic. Formats change and differ by team: confirm yours with your recruiter.