Tell me about a time you had significant disagreement with someone and later realized they were right.

"This was my second time going through the same Meta MLE process, and compared to the prior year the big changes were a written portal pre-screen and the new AI-enabled coding round. A sourcer reached out by email, I filled out the questionnaire, then I did a 45-minute coding screen with two LeetCode-style questions before getting the full loop. I split the loop across four days, one round per day: coding, AI-enabled debugging/coding, behavioral, and an ML design round on a TikTok-style recommendation system. The coding felt very standard Meta to me, but the AI round was the distinctive one because I had to debug an unfamiliar codebase, run tests intelligently, and use an LLM without blindly trusting it."

"I applied, and did a normal recruiter screen followed by a coding phone screen. After I passed that, hiring paused for the team, and then time passed until a different recruiter picked me back up for a virtual onsite. My onsite was a coding round, a system design round, a hiring manager round, a culture round, and a one-person technical presentation. At the time the question bank was small enough that I basically knew the kinds of questions coming, but Anthropic was one of my first loops, so I wasn't as sharpened as I should have been. I got pretty close but didn't get the offer, and my read is that the system design round hurt me the most."