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“I went in expecting the usual behavioral-first format, but in my loop they flipped it and opened with the coding question. The behavioral part still mattered, they just used the follow-ups to see if I actually knew my own work in detail.”
“There’s a new AI coding section I haven’t seen before. They still want to test my coding skill, so I first implement by myself, then use AI as a code reviewer for readability and missing test cases.”
“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.”
“By the time I got to OpenAI, I’d interviewed with 11 or 12 companies, so my behavioral was very well rehearsed. I kept openings in my answers so if they followed up, they’d go where I wanted them to go.”
“What stood out most was the interviewer straight up told me the culture at Scale is “pretty like 996,” which you usually never hear that openly. And the rounds were super speed focused, like two interval-style problems in one hour.”
“In the age of AI, I could feel the interviewer adding little follow-up questions just to make sure I actually understood the problem, because if you were using AI tools, there’d be a lag. Even clearing the onsite doesn’t mean you’ll find a team quickly.”
“I had done really poorly on the easy coding question, but I still got through to the next round, which was really surprising. Then in behavioral, the interviewer said, "that does not sound like a conflict," and I had to change my story on the spot.”
“They literally moved my final to their hackathon and I ended up interviewing at 1:00 a.m. at the office. It was supposed to be collaborative, but instead I got dropped into this huge unfamiliar class and had to understand their code fast.”
“My system design round was literally, “You’re a Netflix subscriber, you forgot your password. Design everything that happens after you click the forgot password button,” including all the behind the scenes flow and edge cases.”
