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“pretty rigorous, multiple stages(8) were there. each round extends a bit more on the mathematical and intuition side, with problems being more intuition based and the solution requiring approximations”
“The procss was very smooth, the recruiters are very helpful and they get back to you very quickly. I applied normally through their website. A few weeks later, I get an email that the recruiter wants to talk to me about my background and experience. We went on a call, then a few days later I was invited for the interview. The interview focuses more on collaboration than any other company, you can check out their mock SWE interview it's a very accurate representation of what they want. Also within a few days, I was invited to the final round.”
“interviewer wasn't trying to get the perfect solution, but directed me to cover the most important bits by asking the right questions such as how to handle negative numbers ”
“The process was different than most tech companies. There was no Leetcode or algorithmic questions. The questions were more open-ended and the emphasis was on writing clean and obviously correct code, as well as communicating effectively. The recruiter helped helped make sure the process went smoothly.”
“I had an initial interview with a recruiter and then progressed to the first technical stage, which I didn’t pass. It involved an OOP-based task where I had to design a system similar to VS Code that tracks when function are opened and closed”
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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.”
