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“The interview is definitely hard, but achievable with preparation because the timing is very less. In the screening, you get five Python and five SQL in one hour, and you need to pass at least three SQL and three Python.”
“The AI enabled round was actually pretty unique. I used bit mask first, then hit a collision because the input had letters and numbers, and the LLM started hallucinating new functions, so I had to debug both the codebase and the AI.”
“There’s a new AI coding section I haven’t seen before. They still want to test my coding skill, so I first implement by myself, then use AI as a code reviewer for readability and missing test cases.”
“In the age of AI, I could feel the interviewer adding little follow-up questions just to make sure I actually understood the problem, because if you were using AI tools, there’d be a lag. Even clearing the onsite doesn’t mean you’ll find a team quickly.”
“One of my interviewers felt a bit more like a rainy day. They had a specific framework or pathway in mind and wanted me to go down that path, even though that’s not where I wanted to go with my solution.”
“I was really confident of getting an offer, but they told me I scored higher on the management side and failed coding and product design. What surprised me most was hearing the product design feedback was structured so the recruiter couldn't really challenge it.”
“I had done really poorly on the easy coding question, but I still got through to the next round, which was really surprising. Then in behavioral, the interviewer said, "that does not sound like a conflict," and I had to change my story on the spot.”
“I got feedback that I performed well on the coding interviews even when I did not feel like I performed up to a requisite level, so I think the bar has more flexibility than we may give ourselves credit for.”
“I was a little complacent because I’m already ex-Meta, and the surprising feedback was that my project retrospective was only leaning toward hire because I answered a constructive feedback question like they were asking for praise. I cleared the loop, discussed numbers and joining date, and then the offer got put on hold because of the hiring freeze.”
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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.”
