Anthropic Software Engineer System Design Interview Questions
Practice 37 real System Design interview questions for Software Engineer roles at Anthropic.
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How would you scale batch image pipelines?
This question evaluates a candidate's competence in designing scalable, reliable batch image-processing pipelines, testing knowledge of distributed sy...
Scale crawler with thread pool
Concurrent Web Crawler — Bounded Thread Pool, Thread-Safe Frontier, Dedupe, Politeness, and Trade-offs You are refactoring an existing single-threaded...
Design a desktop AI chat frontend
Design a Frontend Architecture for a Cross-Platform Desktop Conversational AI App Context You are designing the frontend architecture for a cross-plat...
Design a scalable network I/O service
System Design: High-Volume Network I/O Backend (Files and Streaming) Context Design a backend service that supports millions of users uploading and do...
Design a one-to-one chat system
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, real-time one-to-one messaging systems, testing competencies in transport choice for...
Design production-ready dedup service
System Design: Production-Ready File Deduplication Service Context Design a multi-tenant cloud service that stores files and achieves space savings vi...
Describe a Python design-and-coding approach in Colab
Python Coding-and-Design Exercise in Google Colab You are given an open-ended coding-and-design exercise to complete in Python, and the interviewer re...
Schedule instructions on a VLIW pipeline
VLIW Instruction Scheduling and Software Pipelining You are given a 4-issue VLIW machine with these functional units and latencies: - 2 ALUs (ALU late...
Implement a thread-safe producer–consumer buffer
Implement a thread-safe producer–consumer buffer Bounded Blocking Buffer with Shutdown and Timeouts You are asked to design and implement a thread-saf...
Optimize HTTP requests for speed and limits
This question evaluates understanding of concurrency, throughput optimization, rate limiting, and trade-offs in designing scalable networked services....
Design a prompt-sharing platform
This question evaluates system design competencies including product and backend architecture, data modeling and indexing, permission and sharing mode...
Identify and mitigate deduplication program risks
System Design: Robust File Deduplication in the Real World Context You are designing a file deduplication tool that scans large directory trees on one...
Design a distributed web crawler
This question evaluates the ability to design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for web crawling, covering competencies such as URL dedupli...
Optimize a compute kernel with a simulator
Performance Optimization Plan for a Compute Kernel Context You are given: - A compute kernel (single critical function or set of loops) to optimize. -...
Design a scalable, reliable system
System Design: Global Photo/Video File Storage and Sharing ("CloudDrive") Context Design a scalable, highly reliable consumer service where users uplo...
Guide and override compiler optimizations
Guiding a Compiler for a VLIW-like Backend You are optimizing hot loops for a VLIW-like target (e.g., DSP/AI accelerator) where the compiler sometimes...
Design a concurrent web crawler
Question Design and implement a concurrent web crawler. Starting from one or more seed URLs, the crawler should fetch pages, extract links, deduplicat...