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“Everything went well. What didn't go well was that I had a location preference, and the interview did not like it. ”
“What went well: Structure up front, moving quickly despite holidays in between What didn't go well: After last interview didn't hear back for quite some time”
“It was very vague and it took really long. Really depends on the team interviewing you and is a bit of a crapshoot.”
“Along the interview process, I think the recruiter reached out and she was very friendly. Things were smooth. I think I had multiple rounds and overall the interview process was great.”
“It followed AWS's standard flow: a recruiter screen, then a phone interview with the hiring manager, then a full virtual loop of [4–5] back-to-back interviews, each about 45 minutes. The loop was almost entirely behavioral and built around Amazon's Leadership Principles, with each interviewer focused on a couple of LPs, plus some role-specific questions about data center standup, hardware deployment, and vendor coordination.”
“Intro and Most critically challanging past project (around 10-15 minutes) Design a configuration service which is responsible for updating configurations existing on n number of microservices existing in our architecture - High level System design discussion (arond 25-30 minutes)”
“It was overall a smooth experience. Be prepared to wait for 2 weeks to schedule interviews due to lack of interviewers.”
“The interview was quite smooth. All of the interviewers asked their direct questions with no further small talk. ”
“The process was quick with all interview rounds initially scheduled in the same week. The technical interviews were adapted to real world code implementations and didn't directly relate to Leetcode style problems. The system design round was very open-ended with no definite question and highly ambiguous requirements.”
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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.”
