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“The interview process was challenging but very informative. The recruiter guided me well about preparation.”
“Pretty easy, just very long. For technical just need to do leetcode, no system design. Interviewers help you if you are stuck. ”
“The hiring manager provided an overview of the team's structure, mission, and the open PM role. I shared my background and drew relevant connections to the team's focus area. The conversation included a brief informal problem-solving discussion around product success metrics and go-to-market strategy for an open-source developer platform. The call concluded with alignment on next steps, including onsites. ”
“I had prepared well with product sense, and had a good understanding of how ML algo's work, that instilled a lot of confidence in me. Having a clear structure and a lot of clarification questions helped with articulating my thoughts.”
“The process was quite different - they wanted a cybersecurity engineer with advanced DSA-level coding experience + consulting. Somewhere it seemed its kinda Software Security Engineer role, but they just wouldn't tell you that.”
“I was first contacted by the recruiter for a buisness DS position and had a quick screen. They walked me through the several rounds and what is covered in each. Later on they even helped me go through feedback for each round. Had a total of about 5-6 rounds. The rounds were mostly case study and statistics oriented. Had very little ML depth questions. ”
“Recruiter call was quite okay. It was just basic level of asking if I had certain experiences, very surface level of asking, then just preparing me for what the rounds are. Followed up with an email with a list of interview topics that may be tested. Subsequently, I had interview in the technical phone interview round. I managed to answer ~50% of the theoretical questions, but the remaining 50% were very hands-on and experienced based which I did not have enough of, like specific commands to run and troubleshoot when things gone wrong. Interviewer did not ask me to self-intro, nor ask about any of my expereinces at all. We just dove right in to the questions. Out of the 5 topics that were asked of me to prepare, only dove deep into 1 - Linux.”
“The interview process moved very quickly overall, which I appreciated because it kept momentum high and reduced uncertainty between stages. Communication from the recruiting team was generally responsive, and scheduling was efficient despite the number of rounds involved.”
“It was quite a lengthy process. The TAT was quite long and slow as well. Didn't receive a lot of feedback to prepare better for the next rounds, but overall was a great learning experience.”
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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.”
