Anthropic
AI safety and research company behind Claude, focusing on constitutional AI.
5 Rounds
~20 Days
Very Hard
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Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a bash script to parse a large Nginx access log file, extract the top 10 IP addresses making requests to a specific API endpoint, and dynamically block them using iptables.
#Bash
#Linux
#Networking
#Security
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python script using `boto3` to find and delete all unattached EBS volumes in an AWS account that are older than 30 days.
#Python
#Boto3
#AWS EC2
#Automation
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement a concurrent worker pool in Go to process a large queue of infrastructure provisioning tasks efficiently.
#Go
#Concurrency
#Goroutines
#Channels
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a function to parse a large Nginx access log file and return the top 10 IP addresses with the highest HTTP 5xx error rates.
#Python
#Log Parsing
#Data Structures
#Regex
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a script to automatically scale an Auto Scaling Group based on a custom metric (e.g., GPU memory utilization) retrieved from Prometheus.
#Python
#Prometheus API
#AWS Auto Scaling
#Automation
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