Design a distributed web crawler

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This question evaluates the ability to design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for web crawling, covering competencies such as URL deduplication, politeness (rate limiting and robots.

Design a distributed web crawler

Company: Anthropic

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: This question evaluates the ability to design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for web crawling, covering competencies such as URL deduplication, politeness (rate limiting and robots.

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Jan 6, 2026
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