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“Lyft rejected me after the SQL take-home because I built this whole Python pipeline to pull from their locked spreadsheet and they were basically like, this could have been done with simpler query logic. Then at Uber, my roommate stopped me from over-indexing on PCA charts and told me, nobody knows what PCA is, Mark.”
“The live case was open ended and ambiguous. The interviewer wanted a proper big 4 consulting type framework and structure of the answer”
“Was very straightforward, great communication and enthusiasm from the team. Interesting case as well. ”
“This kind of interview is new to me as I don't have a tech background. The screening call was to make sure I matched the requirements. The CCAT/UCAT test wasn't too difficult but it is best to practice using examples on udemy so you can answer all 40 questions in 20 mins. The take home task took most of the week. I am new to SQL so there was a learning curve to try and get over.”
“Behavioral : Very smooth and friendly Case: Stress test. Cold attitude by the interviewer from the very first minute”
“The process was smooth, everything went well. Both the interviewer and recruiter was really nice and polite. ”
“The process was very well structured with no surprises. They will let you know what exactly they are looking for and test you on that which I found nice.”
“It was pretty easy, I broke down the funnel into small steps and then try to optimise for each step one by one by asking questions. But I haven't asked for the formula to define the process or metric they are trying to optimise which I realised mid interview but the interviewer was pretty sweet ”
“Overall interview process was good. People seem friendly and smart. First screen was very straightforward ”
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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.”
