Bloomberg broke down how hiring works at what's become the most coveted employer in tech. A recruiter from the London office got a thousand connection requests and two hundred messages a day after posting on LinkedIn that she'd joined Anthropic. She later had to ask candidates to stop calling her personal number — one she'd never published anywhere.
How the process works
Candidates go through up to five rounds of interviews. Using AI is banned — the company building the world's most powerful models wants to see how you actually think. Technical skills are just the baseline filter. The real thing is the culture interview: values, worldview, ethical dilemmas. Any employee from any department can run it, and a low score shuts every door, no exceptions.
Beliefs as a job requirement
Anthropic wants people who can think skeptically — including about the company itself. Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic) said back in February:
> "I spend a third, maybe 40% of my time making sure the culture at the company is right"
Some candidates prep for these interviews with coaches — anonymous ones, at $4,600 a course — run by current OpenAI and Anthropic employees.
Anthropic pays from $250K. So the line of applicants isn't going anywhere.