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“The weirdest part was the AI round. I was told to come ready to prompt whatever tool I wanted, but when I got there it basically turned into a loose system design interview about using AI agents for testing and reliability.”
“The wildest round was not system design. It was a cross-org interview with a cost management partner grilling me on how I would forecast host spend for an observability team, and I had not seen that anywhere else.”
“My hiring manager came back as part of the final loop and literally asked me zero interview questions. The whole 30 minutes was just, what questions do you have for me, which made it feel more like a sell call than an evaluation.”
“Apple merged me into one interview loop for two different EPM openings in the same Siri org, and the hardest part was that two rounds were so ML-metrics-heavy that I honestly don't know how a random TPM could have prepped for them.”
“The most Apple question I got was basically how I would make Siri actually useful, and I ended up pitching an LLM wrapper around Shortcuts so Siri could build full automations from one plain-English request.”
“the initial discussion was over zoom and was very friendly. I was given a brief description of the position, offered to ask questions and then was asked to share more about myself and how I feel about the position.”
“The process was smooth. However, the hiring manager wasn't really engaged and it seemed like there was a specific type of answers/experiences she was looking for.”
“People are nice, questions are fair, but some questions might be niche. Had a hard time understanding the questions.”
“The interview was "Python Coding" so I prepared for Data Structures and Algorithms but I wasn't expecting this question. ”
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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.”
