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“OA: CCAT Phone: Rover VO: Life story: how to get into tech? What's your plan 1-2yrs? Have you looked at the link I sent you and what do you think about it? What do you think about 40% growth? Pair: Word guessing game (front end) Project deep dive: can use your own diagram or PPT ”
“The engineer was good, worked with you to solve the problem. I confused between LRU and LFU which I think was the major problem.”
“Both core rounds went okay-ish so far. The DSA round was strangely fixated on trees (weird) —the one topic I had not really prepared in-depth for Amazon—and was too focused on DP, strings, sliding window, LCS, and the type of stuff Amazon usually focuses on.”
“The questions weren't too difficult, and the interviewers were friendly enough.”
“The questions were concentrated to product sense and analytical thinking, but there were a lot of follow-up questions for each case.”
“HR is amazing. The first company in Australia I encountered that arrange a time for phone screen and confirmation beforehand but not random call candidates at any time.”
“Process was smooth. Interview details were shared beforehand and we were prompted to prepare a presentation/pitch”
“interviewer wasn't trying to get the perfect solution, but directed me to cover the most important bits by asking the right questions such as how to handle negative numbers ”
“Process was good and people were nice. I think it was rushed at times on back to back interview so better to break them. ”
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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.”
