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“Initially considered for IC6 but performed poorly in the system design so got down-leveled to IC5. For IC6 consider how your system interacts with other systems.”
“Process was fast. Technical depth was deep. Lots of follow-ups. Need to defend choices of metrics and design.”
“Overall, the interview process went smoothly. The interviews were well organized, and I was able to assess the candidate’s technical skills and problem-solving approach. What went well: The discussions were productive, and the candidate had opportunities to explain their thought process and technical decisions.”
“It was a nice interview process. They cared about production concerns of Agentic systems. The fundamentals of transformers parts went well for me. What may not have gone so well would be productions concerns related questions like latency as it was my first job.”
“The process was long and had 5 rounds. There are some helpful resources online, like YouTube interviews.”
“Overall, the interview process was well-structured and a positive experience. The interviewer was professional and approachable, and the questions provided a good opportunity to demonstrate my technical and problem-solving skills. I particularly appreciated the collaborative nature of the discussion. One area for improvement would be allowing slightly more time for discussing alternative approaches and testing edge cases. Overall, I appreciated the experience and the opportunity to interview with the team.”
“The interview was really good All rounds where proper Coding round needs coder pad and really good ”
“The process was lengthy with 5 rounds which mostly focused on product strategy, MVP creation, feature trad off and product execution.”
“Good process, hard Leetcode, I struggled a little, but managed to get through it. Graph questions. Debugging 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.”
