Implement Task Management and Duplicate Detection
Company: Anthropic
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Coding & Algorithms
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question evaluates implementation and system-design skills across two problems: an in-memory task management service (CRUD operations, prioritized listing, user quotas and assignment semantics, and recording task change history) and a file deduplication routine involving directory traversal and content-based file comparison.
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