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What this posting asks for
Level: Senior — The posting asks for 8+ years of experience.
Main responsibilities
- Lead technical IT due diligence: assess a company's identity, applications, endpoints, and infrastructure, and brief the deal team on risk and effort before …
- Find the gaps between an acquired environment and Anthropic's security model, rate them, and build the mitigations into the integration plan
- Define the technical integration plan and its requirements: what moves, where it lands, in what order, and what has to be ready on day one
- Run the integration: take over administration, migrate people, devices, and data, and retire what's no longer needed, with support from other IT Engineering …
- Work with Business Technology, Client Platform, Corporate Network, IT Operations, and Security on their parts of each integration
- Keep Corporate Development, Legal, People, Finance, and the acquired company's team clear on where IT stands
- Build a repeatable IT M&A playbook and automate as much of it as possible with Claude
- When M&A work is light, contribute to core Corporate Systems projects
- You may be a good fit if you have
- 8+ years as a hands-on engineer in corporate IT. You have designed and shipped systems, carried out migrations or integrations yourself, and owned at least o…
Competencies an interviewer will look for
- Technical skill Core
In the posting: “This is a hands-on engineering role.” · “You'll hold admin, write code, build automation, run the cutovers yourself and bring in other teams when the work calls for their expertise or support.” · “You'll lead this work for IT Engineering and partner with Security, Corporate Development, Legal, People, and Finance at every stage.”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off. - Communication Core
In the posting: “Clear communication with executives, legal and corporate development teams, and engineers at acquired companies” · “If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.” · “As such, we greatly value communication skills.”
Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech. - Teamwork and collaboration Core
In the posting: “Anthropic's Corporate Systems team runs the core collaboration platforms everyone here works in and builds the tooling and automation behind IT.” · “You'll lead this work for IT Engineering and partner with Security, Corporate Development, Legal, People, and Finance at every stage.” · “Experience administering enterprise identity and collaboration platforms such as Google Workspace, Slack, and an SSO provider, and working code in Python or …”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled. - Ownership and accountability Core
In the posting: “You'll own the IT side of Anthropic's acquisitions: due diligence, integration planning, and integration.” · “You have designed and shipped systems, carried out migrations or integrations yourself, and owned at least one area end-to-end, with experience supporting ot…” · “Comfort working autonomously, with ambiguity and confidential information”
Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it. - Planning and organisation Core
In the posting: “You'll own the IT side of Anthropic's acquisitions: due diligence, integration planning, and integration.” · “You'll define the technical integration plan and its requirements: what moves, where it lands, in what order, what has to be ready on day one, and how each s…” · “After close, you'll carry out that plan and bring the company's people, devices, and systems onto our stack.”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how. - Adaptability and learning Core
In the posting: “Comfort working autonomously, with ambiguity and confidential information” · “We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely…”
Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted. - Attention to detail and quality Core
In the posting: “Your safety matters to us.” · “This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, S…”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used. - Leadership and mentoring Supporting
In the posting: “Write the IT risk memo for a live deal and present it to Corporate Development and Security leadership”
Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them. - Customer focus Supporting
In the posting: “Work with Business Technology, Client Platform, Corporate Network, IT Operations, and Security on their parts of each integration”
Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company. - Data and analysis Supporting
In the posting: “Run the integration: take over administration, migrate people, devices, and data, and retire what's no longer needed, with support from other IT Engineering …”
Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it. - Stakeholder management Supporting
In the posting: “Clear communication with executives, legal and corporate development teams, and engineers at acquired companies”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
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Practice questions
- Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
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- Built from this posting (8):
- Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complex to someone outside your field. From this posting
- Describe a time you worked with another team to deliver something. What was your part? From this posting
- Tell me about a task you took from start to finish without anyone asking you to. From this posting
- How have you used training in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
- Tell me about a problem you solved using writing. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
- Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
- This posting reads as Finance & accounting: its questions come first.
- Tell me about a time you found an error in a financial report or reconciliation. Finance & accounting
- Walk me through how you build a budget or forecast. Finance & accounting
- It is the last day of month-end close and a balance will not tie out. What do you do? Finance & accounting
- Describe a time you explained a financial result to a manager outside finance. Finance & accounting
- How do you make sure your work holds up in an audit? Finance & accounting
- Tell me about an analysis that saved money or found revenue. Finance & accounting
- Three urgent requests arrive during close. How do you decide the order? Finance & accounting
- Describe a finance process you made faster or more reliable. Finance & accounting
- Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
- Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
- Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
- Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
- Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
- Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
- Describe a process you improved.
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
- Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
- Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
- What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
- What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
- You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
- Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
- A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
- How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
- Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
- You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
- How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
- Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
- How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
- Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
- A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
- How do you keep your pipeline organised?
- Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
- You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
- Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.

