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making AI safe

The interview process at Anthropic varies based on role and candidate, but our standard process looks like this:

Step 1

Resume

Submit your resume via our website.

Step 2

Exploratory chat

You’ll have a chat with one of our staff to discuss your career interests and relevant experience, and learn more about Anthropic.

Step 3

Skills Assessment

• For technical roles, you’ll have a one-hour technical screening interview.
• For operations or policy roles, you’ll get a take-home assignment. These typically involve writing responses to several role-relevant questions; they may occasionally require some outside research. Assignments usually take between 2-5 hours, depending on the role.
• We include this to minimize bias and make well-informed hiring decisions. We think seeing a candidate’s work helps us assess how they might actually perform on the job; similarly, the assignment gives candidates a better idea of what their work at Anthropic might entail. If a candidate likes working through their take-home, that is one indicator that they would enjoy taking on the role, and vice versa.
• We recognize that completing work assignments requires time and effort, and that they are not perfectly reflective of the role’s work. Nonetheless, we think that work tests are a useful complement to interviews and reference checks.

Step 4

Team Screen

You'll have a conversation with either the Hiring Manager or a member of your potential team.

Step 5

Interview Panel

• For technical roles, you’ll have 3-4 more one-hour technical interviews, plus a culture interview.
• For operations or policy roles, you’ll have 3-5 hours of interviews, including a culture interview.

Step 6

Final Checks

We’ll ask for some references, and have you chat with our leadership.

Step 7

Offer

We’ll make you an offer!

The novel challenges we think about at Anthropic demand diverse expertise and perspectives. Our interview process is designed to identify thoughtful candidates who bring unique strengths to our multidisciplinary team. If you think this may describe you, we’d love to hear from you regardless of your background or experience.

One of the most common questions we get is about whether it is worth applying to work at Anthropic if you have not worked on modern machine learning systems in the past. Yes! For some roles, ML experience is expected, but many technical staff have arrived at Anthropic with no machine learning experience. If you aren’t sure about the ML experience needed for your role, ask your recruiter.

We use shared environments like Colab and Replit for our programming-focused interviews. We’ll be very interested in how you think through each problem and analyze the tradeoffs between possible approaches, and we’ll also expect you to write, run, and debug your solutions. You’ll be allowed to look things up in documentation or on the web, just like you usually can (which is why we’ll ask you to share your screen throughout each interview); but it’s still important to be familiar with basic syntax, standard libraries, and common idioms in the language you’re interviewing in, so that looking things up doesn’t consume too much time. Your interview process will also include non-technical questions about your experience and what motivates you, and, of course, you’ll have time to ask us about Anthropic! We can’t wait to meet you.