Discuss career decisions and culture fit
Overview
This question evaluates leadership and behavioral competencies alongside technical decision-making, including career narrative clarity, cross-functional collaboration, frontend architecture trade-offs, conflict resolution, mentorship, and the ability to quantify impact with metrics.
Anthropic
Sep 6, 2025, 12:00 AM
Software Engineer
Technical Screen
Behavioral & Leadership
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Behavioral and Leadership Technical Screen — Software Engineer
Context
You’ll be assessed on how you make and communicate decisions, collaborate across functions, and drive measurable outcomes. Use concrete examples, quantify results, and clarify your role.
Instructions
- Use a structured format (e.g., STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result).
- Emphasize impact with metrics (e.g., p50/p95 latency, conversion, crash rate, dev velocity).
- Be concise and specific about your contributions.
Questions
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Career Path and Transitions
- Walk through your career chronologically.
- Why each move? What impact did you deliver? How did your responsibilities evolve?
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Frontend Architecture Project (Deep Dive)
- Describe a project where you led frontend architecture.
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Cover:
- Goals and constraints (scale, latency, reliability, security/compliance, timelines, team size).
- Key decisions and trade-offs (e.g., SSR vs CSR, state management, bundling/build, micro-frontend vs modular monolith, design system, accessibility, observability).
- Collaboration and decision process.
- Measurable outcomes (before/after metrics, developer velocity, reliability, business impact).
- Lessons learned.
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Ambiguity or Pushback to Protect Quality/UX
- A time you handled ambiguity or pushed back to protect quality or user experience.
- Context, alternatives considered, your actions, and results.
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Conflict Resolution
- A conflict with a teammate or cross-functional partner.
- How you approached, resolved, and what changed afterward.
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Failure or Mistake
- A meaningful failure or mistake.
- What you learned and what you do differently now.
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Leadership Behaviors
- How you demonstrate: collaboration, ownership, customer obsession, bias for action, and high standards.
- Provide one concise example for each.
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Learning and Mentorship
- How you learn new technologies, elevate your team, and mentor others.
- Include specific practices and outcomes.
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Motivation: Desktop AI Product
- Why are you interested in building a desktop AI product?
- What unique value would you bring?
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