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“Pretty easy, just very long. For technical just need to do leetcode, no system design. Interviewers help you if you are stuck. ”
“The coding problem was too long to be done within 1 hour. Should practice more and get fluent with basic language libraries and their APIs”
“Meta is still leetcode heavy and medium to hard questions should be expected. Since it's leetcode style interview you can predict the out come and also prepare easily. What didn't go well - For the second question couldn't walk-though the code with example due to time constraint. - I spent too much time explaining my approach for both problems. Overall keep your thoughts concise and finish the code first to quickly finish both questions.”
“The interview process went well. The recruiter was very responsive and supportive throughout the process. Had a recruiter screening call and an HM call. I am pretty sure that the HM did not like my profile, or there was no fit for the role.”
“Discussions about frontend fundamentals and my work experience went well. I was supposed to code the solution within 10 minutes after I had thought through the approach, but I took longer because I was supposed to solve the question in JS, while I primarily solve DSA questions in C++. ”
“I was given a PDF of questions related to the card game. I was asked to choose a language, I chose Python, and then I had to write complex Python logic to simulate the Card game amongst 4 players. The logic was not that hard; what was hard was that we had to write a lot of code in a very short amount of time. The interviewer was very helpful and asked me to correct my mistakes pretty early, which saved me some precious time.”
“The interviews are easy/medium difficulty for an experienced engineer. The first coding round includes Java-related questions before moving on to an easy LeetCode-style problem. There is no virtual onsite; candidates are required to go to the office in San Francisco, and there are four rounds in total. The interviews are very friendly and feature relatively easy-to-solve problems.”
“The process was good but thorough. They were very responsive and punctual. The coding questions were easy, but can be hard under pressure.”
“Interviews are conducted well, the first coding round is only the elimination round. The position was filled while I was being interviewed and my application did not move forward even though I did well in all the interviews.”
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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.”
