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“The interviews are scheduled over 2-3 days so the process is quick. They have a phone screen, DS round, DS with AI, System design and Hiring Manager round.”
“Was asked to conduct a live interview on the Karat platform - a third party company hired by Citi to interview candidates. The interview consisted of 5 java theory based questions (~10 min) followed by a pair programming / debugging session (~50 min).”
“The interview process was professional and well-structured, focusing heavily on real-world distributed systems challenges, which I found to be a great opportunity to showcase my skills. While the experience was positive, I struggled to align with the interviewers on certain technical nuances during our discussions, which ultimately led to my rejection.”
“The process was pretty simple from the early start, but they emphasize a lot on matching Anduril's core values and see if you're a culture fit. I would have better prepared my stories and gaps for the behavioral interview. There were gaps regarding technical depth and being too ambiguous.”
“Generally salesforce keep interviews in one two days hiring drive where each round eliminating.So i got the interview opportunity via referral so didnt gave OA but scheduled DSA round as very first round where 45 minutes and two medium to hard level questions should be done with almost optimised approach and time complexity explaination.”
“The process had a great focus on ML, which is to be expected. The hiring manager was quite knowledgeable and easy to talk to. The company seems to have had some pretty crazy stock fluctuation in the last few years, which I thought was kind of a red flag. Not sure if that is a sign of a healthy business.”
“The coding question was easy but the questions about debugging were very hard. Had to have production level knowledge to answer those.”
“Overall, the interview process was structured and covered a good mix of DSA, software engineering practices, system design, and behavioral/team-fit discussions. I went through five rounds, and the difficulty was reasonable but the questions were varied and required adapting quickly between problem-solving and design-oriented discussions. The DSA rounds went well, particularly because the problems tested both fundamentals and the ability to reason through domain-specific constraints. The system design round was the highlight for me. I enjoyed discussing the bottlenecks in the initial design, reasoning about the 50,000 RPS traffic spike and limited inventory, and iterating toward a scalable solution. The hiring manager round was also a good experience because it went beyond standard behavioral questions and involved a detailed discussion of my past work, architecture decisions, database migration considerations, and how I would use AI tools while solving engineering problems. One thing I found challenging was that the software engineering practices round was more DSA-focused than I had expected, so there was less emphasis on software design/practices than I had anticipated. Overall, though, the process was positive and I received encouraging feedback throughout.”
“Throughout the process, I thought out loud, trying to take the interviewer along with me at every single step. He seemed pretty satisfied with my answers. At the end, we discussed the role of an intern at Google and the different teams within the company.”
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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.”
