Design Peer-to-Peer Model Distribution Under a Shared Link Cap
Company: Anthropic
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: Design peer-to-peer distribution of a large model from one seed to many targets when each machine shares a strict upload-and-download link budget. The conversation combines a defensible completion-time lower bound with chunk scheduling, verified forwarding, rate control, resume behavior, activation, failure recovery, and straggler analysis.
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