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“They showed me this intentionally vague architecture with Kafka, Jupyter, and an experiment dashboard, and the whole prompt was basically just, "it’s slow." Then they pivoted to a custom system training LLMs across 500 nodes and kept drilling into failure modes and latency.”
“I told Sierra I’d only worked in Python, they said that was fine, and then my first onsite was a TypeScript React debugging round where the interviewer showed up 10 or 15 minutes late and was super rude and cold.”
“I interviewed at maybe 15 or 20 places in six months, and for every onsite I got an offer, but Reddit still threw me for a loop because the ML system design leaned way more infra than modeling.”
“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. ”
“People are nice, questions are fair, but some questions might be niche. Had a hard time understanding the questions.”
“Overall, the interview process was smooth and well-structured. The interviewers were friendly and gave me a good opportunity to explain my experience and approach to problem-solving. I felt the conversations were engaging, although a few questions were challenging and required me to think on my feet.”
“The interview was "Python Coding" so I prepared for Data Structures and Algorithms but I wasn't expecting this question. ”
“Was quite smooth and easy to follow. Recruiter screen was not so technically rigorous but the case study was.”
“The process generally be good, and enjoyable, not too much difficult. but needs to explain deeply to interviewer. ”
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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.”
