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“Recruiter reach out, HM screen, talked to HM's manager and HM's peers, total about 4 interviews. interview was really focusing on TPM fundamentals like timeline management and how I ran programs, communications”
“It was a very typical FAANG interview style. The coding questions are all very leet-code, so it's easy to practice. The design question was unique; I hadn't heard of it before. Not that not all engineers use a question from the internal question bank, but generally speaking it's fine. For system design, be sure to bank-of-envelope to justify why something needs to be a distributed system. Your approach might be overkill / underkill without doing this initial analysis, and you might come off as "just regurgitation sys-design interview formula" ”
“The process was what was expected and they were quick in scheduling and re-scheduling as needed. All questions were ones I had seen before via LC tagged. ”
“Everything went well and my second interview of my final round was just a conversation. First interview was more technical just to see if I could talk about and execute technical concepts.”
“The process was more rigourous it went for 1 month and then another 1 month of background check. Rounds were scheduled properly at proper times HR was very cooperative. Interviewere wer very knowledgeable and technically sound”
“I think I did well, prepapring was the best thing I could do, having notes, listening to podcasts, asking questions, doing mock interviews, practice practice practice”
“The process was rigorous, I had 4 rounds, one with HM, one with the engineering manager and 2 with product managers. However, the format of all rounds followed the typical Amazon LP based format. In two of the interviews, I was also asked for mini case study like questions around how I would take decisions on launches and experimentation. ”
“The process was simple but slow, friendly environment, supportive panel. I got stuck during resume follow-ups ”
“Similar to SWE Internship recruiting, just easier LC and addition of SQL questions. Actually had 3 rounds, not 2. ”
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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.”
