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“They had this platform called Speak where I was literally practicing with other people competing for the same spot, so it was camaraderie but also competitiveness. Then at the finalist stage, some people got way more contact with the team than others, and it felt really weird.”
“It was very Amazon style with leadership principles, but layered on top of that they kept asking how I’ve used AI to bring about innovation and change, and then they really challenged the metrics behind my stories.”
“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.”
“One of my interviewers felt a bit more like a rainy day. They had a specific framework or pathway in mind and wanted me to go down that path, even though that’s not where I wanted to go with my solution.”
“I was really confident of getting an offer, but they told me I scored higher on the management side and failed coding and product design. What surprised me most was hearing the product design feedback was structured so the recruiter couldn't really challenge it.”
“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.”
