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“Practice leetcode fundamentals (graph, tree), practice system design fundamentals, speaking/thinking out loud, being able to explain full flow of what happens from when user/request is received to processed to returned (ensure components are disconnected/missing a flow path)”
“It went pretty well. The interviewers were very nice, so it was easy to talk through my behavioral stories without putting on a super professional act. Coding challenges were mostly medium leetcode questions.”
“Initially considered for IC6 but performed poorly in the system design so got down-leveled to IC5. For IC6 consider how your system interacts with other systems.”
“The whole process was smooth for me, prepared well from meta tagged leetcode questions and for system design hello interview was more than enough”
“Coding focussed with focus on leetcode style problems. The design prompts are simple and abstract like design netflix or design instagram, etc. It is upto you to drive design discussion and this round decides leveling”
“Everything was smooth. Interviewers were super friendly. They made me feel comfortable. I took my time to prepare which i highly recommend”
“Similar to SWE Internship recruiting, just easier LC and addition of SQL questions. Actually had 3 rounds, not 2. ”
“It was an extremely smooth process, though team matching was rough. Questions didn't need to be 100% right interestingly, as one of the rounds I didn't finish.”
“Along the interview process, I think the recruiter reached out and she was very friendly. Things were smooth. I think I had multiple rounds and overall the interview process was great.”
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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.”
