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“It was really interesting to me since Microsoft PM interviews are known to test heavily (sometimes only) on behavioural as opposed to PM frameworks. However, my experience was mostly PM frameworks with an AI twist on them, which tripped me up a little bit. ”
“I did the first round interview, which was surprisingly not with a recruiter it was with a PM. He deep dived on my resume and asked detailed questions from each experience.”
“The process was smooth, the interviewers were helpful. I messed implmenting LRU cache as I had never seen that question before.”
“It went well overall. They just asked alot of Tell me about questions and asked for follow ups. What was constantly asked was would I do something different if I could do that scenario over again. ”
“The main technical and System design Interview was with the panel. It was a very long interview that took about 2 hours. All of the interviewers seemed very satisfied with my explanations and reasoning. I kept on engaging them during the session, my system design explanations were also very accurate, and pinpointed. I had another session, also about an hour long; he mostly focused on my previous projects and my overall experience in the market. During my second interview, that single interviewer (who was absent in the first one) kept on rehearsing that they needed someone with hands-on experience on Azure, which was very confusing for me, and maybe in the end, that became the reason for my being rejected.”
“Process was very well made with good questions and open ended scenarios. Technical question was unexpected threat modelling. ”
“The overall interview process was straightforward and well organized. Communication was clear, and the interviewers were professional and respectful throughout. I had a positive experience overall, but I ultimately decided to move forward with a different offer that was a better fit for my current goals.”
“One of the interviewers showed up 30 min late to a 45 min interview and we ended up finishing around the same time anyways. ”
“The interview process was well structured and covered a good mix of DSA, ML theory, and ML system design. The problem-solving and technical discussions went well, and the questions were relevant to the role. I felt I could have prepared more thoroughly for some of the system design and deeper ML theory questions. ”
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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.”
