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“They were trying to team match me to a Gemini role before the loop, and then in strategy it got almost combative. Every idea was, 'Slack can do that too, so how are you going to compete with free?'”
“The take-home said to spend no more than four hours on it, but if you're that far in the process, there's no way people aren't spending way more.”
“I probably did at least 10 solid 12 hour days of prep and kind of overprepped into oblivion, and then the interviews were so loosey goosey I barely got to show my thinking before they hired someone internal.”
“I’d never had to do vibe coding live before. In the product design interview, they gave me 10 to 15 minutes to actually build a rough prototype, and most of what they were probing on was how I prompted and reprompted the tool.”
“The process was smooth. First round was a mix of product solutioning and code evaluation. Recruiter screen was easy too , had to walk through the resume basically.”
“The interview was challenging and required me to think deeply about my product decisions and experiences. I enjoyed the level of detail and the directness of the conversation. I felt well prepared by the recruiting team, and the interview gave me a good opportunity to discuss real product problems and the reasoning behind my decisions.”
“The process is very unpredictable because I had one question where I was tested for strategic insight where I was asked very generic question about vision for agentic applications in infra. And then then I had a question on hardware strategy, including Android. And then I had a very vague question on success metrics. Um, I think Google processes very... um, while they test for a specific set of metrics, it is very unpredictable.”
“The process was long and hard, I prepared A LOT. The interviewers were mostly nice and positive. The recruiter was very helpful.”
“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. ”
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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.”
