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“The process was rigorous, I had 4 rounds, one with HM, one with the engineering manager and 2 with product managers. However, the format of all rounds followed the typical Amazon LP based format. In two of the interviews, I was also asked for mini case study like questions around how I would take decisions on launches and experimentation. ”
“Well, I think I didn't prepare much. I was not actively looking and didn't devote much space to prepping. However, if I had to turn back time, I would be really thorough with my star stories and expect the interviewer to get two levels deep. In hindsight, I would ask questions like, "How would you do it differently?" and "What are the learnings from this?" ”
“Overall good. Round interview really intense. 1 hour for each and have to deal with 4 managers one by one.”
“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.”
“The interview was quite smooth. All of the interviewers asked their direct questions with no further small talk. ”
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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.”
