Reddit Experience · Jan 2026

Anthropic phone screen question

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Interview Experience

I got asked for a followup to use concurrency as well. Wondering what y'all think is the best approach? I did thread pool executor but the interviewer wasn't satisfied. Interviewed in Python This isn'

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I got asked for a followup to use concurrency as well. Wondering what y'all think is the best approach? I did thread pool executor but the interviewer wasn't satisfied. Interviewed in Python This isn't directly from the interview site, but I found this question elsewhere online, virtually identical. Not going to say what site it is for obvious reasons.

About This Question

This is a candidate experience report from a anthropic interview for a swe role during the recruiter round reported in 2026.

It covers the following topics: Os, Concurrency .