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“The wildest round was not system design. It was a cross-org interview with a cost management partner grilling me on how I would forecast host spend for an observability team, and I had not seen that anywhere else.”
“My hiring manager came back as part of the final loop and literally asked me zero interview questions. The whole 30 minutes was just, what questions do you have for me, which made it feel more like a sell call than an evaluation.”
“Apple merged me into one interview loop for two different EPM openings in the same Siri org, and the hardest part was that two rounds were so ML-metrics-heavy that I honestly don't know how a random TPM could have prepped for them.”
“The most Apple question I got was basically how I would make Siri actually useful, and I ended up pitching an LLM wrapper around Shortcuts so Siri could build full automations from one plain-English request.”
“The interview was "Python Coding" so I prepared for Data Structures and Algorithms but I wasn't expecting this question. ”
“Overall interview process was frustrating, as the kind of offer you get doesn't solely depend on your performance, they stack rank a pool they are interviewing. ”
“It was a good interview overall, I was just not prepared for it. Because it was a researcher role, i was first ask an my experience doing AI/ML research then we moved on to the technical problem, that I completely flunked because of nervousness and totally forgoing reviewing DS and Algorithms”
“The interview started with a resume discussion and a system design round. There wasn't enough time left to fully code the LeetCode problem and dry-run the test cases. The interviewer didn't even switch on their camera, and it felt like they weren't very interested in conducting the interview.”
“Hiring manager asked about AB testing and measurement and campaign through different channel, how to attribute.”
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“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
