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“the recruiter was very prompt and communicative. i wish the people doing the interviews were at the same level, sometimes they were very junior”
“The technical round is the hardest to crack.”
“The process is very unpredictable because I had one question where I was tested for strategic insight where I was asked very generic question about vision for agentic applications in infra. And then then I had a question on hardware strategy, including Android. And then I had a very vague question on success metrics. Um, I think Google processes very... um, while they test for a specific set of metrics, it is very unpredictable.”
“The process was much quicker and smoother than at other companies. Recruiters shared some pointers on what to prepare, and mostly it was around that only. What did not go well was that one interview was online, and others were on-site. ”
“The interview was a standard FAANG type of interview, where the recruiter screen talked about resume and behavioral questions, and the first coding round was a non-AI traditional leetcode question.”
“Friendly interviewers, coding round didn't have enough time for 3rd round but finished explanation. make sure you focus on explaining clearly and moving fast through first and second round to complete third round of coding screen.”
“Process is very simple but they recruiter call followed by L1 and L2 interview. Tactfully handle recruiters call otherwise you will miss the opportunity of L1”
“It was totally based on scalability plus telling tradeoffs. Design with discussion was expected. ”
“It was good experience overall Went well Recruiter really put efforts in prepping me for HM Didn’t go well HM round was not clear enough There were no direct LP questions asked so they gave another Screening round”
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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.”
