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“When I went on-site in Palo Alto, they had security guards with guns at the entrance, were doing bag checks, and I even needed an escort to the bathroom. It honestly felt like TSA before an interview.”
“I was on the plane back to Europe when they texted, “Company policy changed, you have to pass an on site coding round,” and then they rescheduled the midnight hiring manager call twice until it was like 3:00 a.m. for me.”
“In the second coding round, he shared a bunch of code for some LLM thing and kept saying, "go through the code, go through the code" whenever I asked for inputs or outputs. I didn’t write a single line, and honestly I was glad when the next round got canceled.”
“I noticed Matty Roy’s name because he was the xAI guy who tweeted that if Grok couldn’t generate erotica, you could just post it on Twitter, and then I interviewed with him like a week later, which was pretty interesting.”
“The process felt extremely fast and kind of rushed. It went from a short call to being flown out the next day to an on-site interview. The interview itself was decent. They asked about the hardest problems I've solved, and the technical question was reasonably straightforward. Given the timeline and rush, I didn't really feel like I had the space to make a clear-headed decision. There was also a two-week trial period they told me about, where you need to prove yourself and also see if the intensity is something you want.”
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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.”
