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“I had to lead an enablement session for a thousand Adobe engineers, so I built a fake Adobe codebase, demoed Cursor live, and got pushback like, "usage is up, but PRs are going down, what do you do?"”
“I’d been applying to Google for five years, like 50 to 100 times, with and without referrals, and this one just randomly responded. Honestly, I think for TPM it’s a chance thing, so sometimes you just get yourself in the door through PGM and switch later.”
“When I went through Databricks, it honestly felt like a Palantir-style FDE loop had been transplanted over. The decomp round was so vague that if I skipped stakeholder questions and KPIs and jumped into architecture, I would have been dead.”
“I basically felt like a guinea pig because Meta had just rolled out the AI PM round, and after I vibe coded a volunteering app in Llama the interviewer started grilling me on token usage, latency, and retrieval.”
“The hardest part wasn't coming up with a flashy AI idea. It was defending what I would actually ship right now when the model still messes up, especially for actions where one bad miss can permanently destroy trust.”
“One of my onsite interviewers pasted a prompt that was basically one sentence long and then just sat back. That round made it click for me that Google was testing how I clarified and structured the problem, not whether I could speedrun a DSA coding problem.”
“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.”
“They were trying to team match me to a Gemini role before the loop, and then in strategy it got almost combative. Every idea was, 'Slack can do that too, so how are you going to compete with free?'”
“The AI enabled round was actually pretty unique. I used bit mask first, then hit a collision because the input had letters and numbers, and the LLM started hallucinating new functions, so I had to debug both the codebase and the AI.”
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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.”
