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“Overall positive experience – people very friendly and sharp. Mostly behavioral interviews, with deep dive on prior work. There was 1+ week of silence after final round. Think it was because the recruiter got reassigned. ”
“About Why Anthropic. They seem to really care. The recruiter seemed like they were really busy to even talk to me. They got interested after we started speaking. One question on how I handled low performers. I wish I had prepared for recruiter screen. I thought it would be generic, but it was what decided the HM next round.”
“Interviewer were assessing for the role, They were looking for control plane experience. My experience is been with data plane and they were not interested with after then”
“The process was quick in terms of scheduling - they were willing to move as fast or slow as I wanted ”
“Not that hard, pretty easy SQL coding challenge. Have to run the SQL live in a Python NB. The behavioral was also pretty easy and mostly about past projects and failures and probing more on resume.”
“The process was rigorous. The recruiter wasn't much help or accurate. Although the scheduling was very easy. ”
“The recruiter was quite helpful and shared details on the structure of the loops and how to prepare for it. The rounds in the loops were almost entirely behavioural focused on "Tell me about a time when" type of questions. There was probing for details as you walk through examples. Time was kept strictly in the discussions and you had to ensure you're able to control the cadence of the conversation.”
“Very smooth interview process. Interviewing in-person enabled for a more conversational style. Got to meet pretty much everyone on the team.”
“The problem was challenging. There were many conditions you had to satisfy and some aspects were a bit underspecified. The interviewers were stone faced and gave zero commentary. I ended up making a small bug which I wasted about 15 minutes trying to fix.”
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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.”
