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“I used Sierra’s values to prioritize everything, but I got feedback that I’d prioritized the end customer over the customer. My logic was, if you help Spotify’s users, you help Spotify automatically, and they pushed back on that.”
“I told Sierra I’d only worked in Python, they said that was fine, and then my first onsite was a TypeScript React debugging round where the interviewer showed up 10 or 15 minutes late and was super rude and cold.”
“The process was smooth in terms of communication and scheduling. The people I met were incredibly kind and high caliber. They were highly personable and seem they are trying to find others who can continue its culture of excellence.”
“The recruiter was warm and friendly. The conversation went well. Moving on to second round, where we'll dive more deeply into 2 specific examples.”
“The process was quick in terms of scheduling - they were willing to move as fast or slow as I wanted ”
“It was fast and thoughtful. I didn't really get any feedback on what could have gone better but in general the folks were thoughtful and the conversations were high quality. ”
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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.”
