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“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.”
“Trust me, Amazon’s interview process has a different bar altogether, and for internal roles I’d stick with the AIQB because the interviewers are trained on that. You can even steer the interview by putting a hook in your answer so everything stays under your control.”
“I got feedback that I performed well on the coding interviews even when I did not feel like I performed up to a requisite level, so I think the bar has more flexibility than we may give ourselves credit for.”
“It was an internship role, AI engineer. First was an online coding round on arrays and strings where I had to return a palindromic subsequence, and later they asked dynamic programming and a linked list hard question.”
“I went all the way to the final round at Coinbase, did a super round with five case interviews, and honestly felt I nailed all of them, but I still never heard back and got zero feedback.”
“Their bar is pretty high for technical knowledge for PMs, but they don’t test it directly. They expect you to know their products, understand machine learning concepts, and be plugged into the current state of affairs.”
“The take-home said to spend no more than four hours on it, but if you're that far in the process, there's no way people aren't spending way more.”
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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.”
