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“OA: CCAT Phone: Rover VO: Life story: how to get into tech? What's your plan 1-2yrs? Have you looked at the link I sent you and what do you think about it? What do you think about 40% growth? Pair: Word guessing game (front end) Project deep dive: can use your own diagram or PPT ”
“The engineer was good, worked with you to solve the problem. I confused between LRU and LFU which I think was the major problem.”
“Both core rounds went okay-ish so far. The DSA round was strangely fixated on trees (weird) —the one topic I had not really prepared in-depth for Amazon—and was too focused on DP, strings, sliding window, LCS, and the type of stuff Amazon usually focuses on.”
“The questions weren't too difficult, and the interviewers were friendly enough.”
“The questions were concentrated to product sense and analytical thinking, but there were a lot of follow-up questions for each case.”
“The interview consists of two parts: a 45 min LC style coding and 15 mins conversation on your prior projects. The 45 min question was to build an arithmetic evaluator. For that, you have to use the Shunting Yard algorithm. It was only "+", "-", "(" and ")". I'm not sure if we would have used more operators, maybe some with precedence, if I had gone further. I had a hard time understanding the interviewer. I learned later on from Chat that you should contact your recruiter immediately if this happens.”
“The process overall was very thorough. They are looking for more technically leaning PMs who are familiar with AI tools and landscape at this time. ”
“The interviewer was nice, however kept interrupting me and push to the next step while I was answering the question. I felt the interviewer was in a rush and wanted to get certain signals by asking specific questions which threw me off a bit as I felt they kinda guiding the interview while i was doing it on my own pace. ”
“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.”
