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“The recruiter mentioned that I will be heavily judged on my Communication as well as problem-solving. What went well: 1. I solved all the questions. 2. I was communicating very well. I wasn't able to pass the round because the interviewer wasn't helpful at all. I asked a question regarding an assumption to the third SQL question, and she said no. When I coded it and received the wrong answer, she said your assumption was wrong. Also, she said, "Don't tell me, you can solve it any way you want to solve." Her phone rang twice (I could sense she was using it, looking down). She was kind of rude, she ran my code while I was coding, causing confusion at my end. Yes, an interview is a collaborative exercise in DoorDash. She added something to my code even without telling me, leading it to fail, and consuming my time to debug.”
“So far so good. Yet to complete, so cannot answer this one fully, but the HR asked me what salary you are expecting, which was slightly off-putting. I did not want to give a figure and box myself. ”
“The interviews are easy/medium difficulty for an experienced engineer. The first coding round includes Java-related questions before moving on to an easy LeetCode-style problem. There is no virtual onsite; candidates are required to go to the office in San Francisco, and there are four rounds in total. The interviews are very friendly and feature relatively easy-to-solve problems.”
“The process was good but thorough. They were very responsive and punctual. The coding questions were easy, but can be hard under pressure.”
“After the recruiter call, the recruiter shared my profile to hiring managers who had headcounts. I talked to one hiring manager, I was asked about my recent projects and some behavioral questions. Overall, very common questions about historical projects and behavior questions.”
“The process was fast, recruiter communicated via emails. A technical round with some easy to medium SQL questions and a case study. The final round has 3 case studies and 1 behavioral question round.”
“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.”
“Interviews are conducted well, the first coding round is only the elimination round. The position was filled while I was being interviewed and my application did not move forward even though I did well in all the interviews.”
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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.”
