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“Throughout the process, I thought out loud, trying to take the interviewer along with me at every single step. He seemed pretty satisfied with my answers. At the end, we discussed the role of an intern at Google and the different teams within the company.”
“I gave a high level design, came up with requirements both functional and non functional, designed api's, data modeling etc. The feedback I got was that I did not do a deep dive on certain components”
“The recruiter round was for 30mins. Recruiter explained about the role and asked questions regarding my background”
“It's pretty standard. Medium difficulty, nothing that is really surprising. For the domain interview, they also expect you to do a mini-design, but it was simple and brief. ”
“Technical Depth: The technical discussions felt like peer-to-peer architecture reviews rather than a standard quiz. Mission Alignment: Every interviewer was deeply aligned with the company’s core focus on safety, reliability, and scaling responsibly. Problem Scope: The system design scenarios perfectly mirrored the actual, massive-scale infrastructure problems the team faces daily.”
“The interview process was well organized and professional. The interviewer explained the process clearly and asked a mix of technical and behavioral questions. What went well was my ability to explain my projects and answer fundamental software engineering questions. However, I struggled with a few system design concepts and could have provided more detailed answers in some technical discussions.”
“The process was long and hard, I prepared A LOT. The interviewers were mostly nice and positive. The recruiter was very helpful.”
“i think i definitely underprepared so i am preparing a lot leading up to my nexxt interview it was a good experience”
“The interview process was challenging but very informative. The recruiter guided me well about preparation.”
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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.”
