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“traditional interviews for MLE. coding rounds are AI-enabled meaning you can use claude or codex to write the code.”
“The system design interview was data collection, SFT and RL stages. It went well for me. It was focused on LLM post training techniques. The ML coding was worst for me although I practiced the same question but using PyTorch and doing without PyTorch and without any documentation was challenging for me.”
“The process is kind of cold. All tasks are performed on codesignal. You are basically do the assignment by yourself with the computer and camera on.”
“The problem was challenging. There were many conditions you had to satisfy and some aspects were a bit underspecified. The interviewers were stone faced and gave zero commentary. I ended up making a small bug which I wasted about 15 minutes trying to fix.”
“Interviewer was very comforting but focus on more Eval part. Prepare eval better along with failover strategy, model choices.”
“What went well: The live coding and system architecture rounds went smoothly. I was able to articulate my design choices clearly, especially around API design, database strategy, and maintaining high availability for microservices. What didn’t go well: The initial behavioral portion felt slightly rushed because we spent extra time discussing specific cross-functional project dynamics from my previous roles. How does this interview compare to other interviews you've done? It was significantly more interactive. Rather than giving static answers, the interviewers actively challenged my assumptions and asked "what if" scenarios, making the evaluation feel comprehensive and realistic to day-to-day work.”
“It was a good interview overall, I was just not prepared for it. Because it was a researcher role, i was first ask an my experience doing AI/ML research then we moved on to the technical problem, that I completely flunked because of nervousness and totally forgoing reviewing DS and Algorithms”
“The process was fairly quick. Recruiter gets back very fast. Good experience. All interviews completed within a week.”
“Went harsh and the interviewer was rude while asking the questions it was 45 mins but they extended it beyond 1 hr”
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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.”
