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“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 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. ”
“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.”
“Overall, this was one of the more rigorous interview processes I've been through, but also one of the most organized. The recruiter was transparent about the interview stages, what each round would focus on, and even shared preparation resources ahead of time, which I really appreciated. Their guidance ended up being quite accurate, so I felt I knew what to expect at a high level. What went well was that every interviewer seemed genuinely interested in understanding how I think rather than just looking for the "right" answer. Most of the conversations felt collaborative, and when I explained my assumptions or reasoning, interviewers often engaged with them instead of immediately moving on. I also appreciated that several interviewers shared context about the team, their own work, and how the role contributes to the business, which made the conversations feel more balanced.”
“recruiter was helpful and gave accurate pointers on what to expect. They also try to set expectations wrt timing”
“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.”
“The overall process was spread across months making it challenging to keep up with constant preparation. I was able to ace the product design, analytics and execution questions. I could have done better in the cross functional round.”
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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.”
