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“When they wrote that one column depends on another, I pretty much immediately jumped to cycle detection and modeled it as a graph. There was a lot of reading involved, but the solutions themselves were mostly brute force and straightforward.”
“The process was more rigorous than anything I’d done at other big tech companies, but the recruiter was actually accurate and helpful on what to prepare. A few things caught me off guard: one round had the level of details and requirements for scalability.”
“Till now the process has been relatively easy if you prep well. Make sure to practice when to use which data structures, explain why you are using them.”
“By far the most technically challenging interview process I've ever had to do for new grad product management roles. Successive coding questions in a constrained time block.”
“The coding problem was too long to be done within 1 hour. Should practice more and get fluent with basic language libraries and their APIs”
“Everything was very straightforward and smooth. I had a clear idea of the process because the recruiter was very helpful and walked me through what to expect from the beginning.”
“The process was very clear and the recruiter guided me through each step with helpful advice. Everyone was easy to talk to and the questions were straightforward.”
“During my Stripe interview process, I felt that most rounds went quite well from my perspective. I came out of the interviews believing I had performed strongly, communicated my experience clearly, and provided thoughtful answers across technical and behavioral discussions. What went well: The interviewers were generally professional and the process was structured. I felt confident in my responses and believed I demonstrated relevant experience effectively. The overall process was organized, and communication from recruiting was mostly clear. What didn’t go well: The feedback I later received felt somewhat misaligned with my own assessment. While I believed I had performed very well, the impression seemed to be that I was viewed as only “okay” across rounds. One frustrating aspect was that interviewers consistently ended sessions around 10 minutes early, which sometimes left me feeling I didn’t have the full opportunity to elaborate further, ask deeper questions, or fully showcase my strengths. This created some uncertainty, as the shortened discussions occasionally made it harder to gauge interviewer engagement or whether enough depth was reached. Overall, while the process itself was smooth and professional, the discrepancy between my perceived performance and the final feedback was disappointing. I believe more consistent use of allotted interview time could have improved the experience and allowed for a fuller evaluation.”
“Can choose between HackerRank and a local IDE for execution. The question is given in several parts; each part's completion is a must to proceed to the next part. There were three parts in total, to be solved within 45 minutes.”
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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.”
