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“It was a good interview overall, I was just not prepared for it. Because it was a researcher role, i was first ask an my experience doing AI/ML research then we moved on to the technical problem, that I completely flunked because of nervousness and totally forgoing reviewing DS and Algorithms”
“The interview started with a resume discussion and a system design round. There wasn't enough time left to fully code the LeetCode problem and dry-run the test cases. The interviewer didn't even switch on their camera, and it felt like they weren't very interested in conducting the interview.”
“Hiring manager asked about AB testing and measurement and campaign through different channel, how to attribute.”
“The process was well organized and technically rigorous. Interviewers focused on problem-solving and practical imaging knowledge. What caught me off guard was the depth of questions on camera systems and image processing details.”
“9 rounds of interviews total. The process was very long but relatively easy compare with other FAANG companies. Mostly focus on behavioral.”
“Timeline was smooth and interviewers were friendly. Turnaround was quick. and Communication was great”
“Hiring managers asked a lot of questions about Java internals, Java build system internals (Maven vs Gradle behaviors), networking internals (HTTP vs HTTP2)”
“The round was with the hiring manager, she asked me alot of questions on churn, profit and lifetime value, which was the focus of the team. Others were basic ML questions like bias variance tradeoff, and project deepdive.”
“Easy overall. A lot of situational questions for 30-45 minutes. 2 hiring managers interviewing you for final round. ”
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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.”
