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“Initially considered for IC6 but performed poorly in the system design so got down-leveled to IC5. For IC6 consider how your system interacts with other systems.”
“Comparatively easy, but took a lot of time to complete the process. Keep your calm and you should be good.”
“I was not interested to proceed with futher interview rounds since I got promoted in my current role”
“The process was fairly straightforward, although the company at the time was very focused on hiring people with the right values. They had a specific "credos" round, with a long-time employee who's focused on making sure you exhibit their top values/credos. The take-home case study was relatively straightforward for someone with an analytical/finance background.”
“This was one of the hardest loops I had completed. The hiring manager screen and behavioral interviews were standard. The system design interview for a TPM was challenging. The expectations for a TPM included a great deal of technical depth. ”
“They give you a study guide. I'd recommend reading it. It's your classic data structure and algorithms interviews.”
“It was an extremely smooth process, though team matching was rough. Questions didn't need to be 100% right interestingly, as one of the rounds I didn't finish.”
“It was overall a smooth experience. Be prepared to wait for 2 weeks to schedule interviews due to lack of interviewers.”
“The interview was quite smooth. All of the interviewers asked their direct questions with no further small talk. ”
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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.”
