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“It's a typical interview process with an HR screening, a LeetCode round, and a system design round. I could have done better in the system design round especially when discussing design tradeoffs.”
““Bit long” means something takes more time, steps, or effort than necessary or expected, but not excessively.”
“I'm able to communicate while solving problem but unable to code the problem interviwers are very supportive and friendly they give hints when i stuck at last i was only able to provide pseudo code.”
“Overall interview process was frustrating, as the kind of offer you get doesn't solely depend on your performance, they stack rank a pool they are interviewing. ”
“OA is sent automatically to everyone who applies. Resume screening happens after. Questions are generally very difficult. The phone interview is done through AI, and asks you technical questions about your experience, projects, and challenges.”
“I found the karat assesment difficult. the first half is intended to be a technical conversation, and then the second half an algorithm-style proble. I didnt feel that the first question itself was that tricky? but I could tell they were looking for a different answer, the interviewer basically stopped me and let me know I have 45 minutes to answer the question so make sure I use the whole time, but I did not. I think the leetcode problem went fine, but ultimately I struggled to fill the time appropriately”
“Directly applied on their portal, Recruiter reached out to me directly on LinkedIn as well and I got interviewed by Microsoft or a Senior Software engineer role in March end and here's the experience”
“Directly applied on their portal, Recruiter reached out to me directly on LinkedIn as well and I got interviewed by Microsoft for a senior software engineer role in April. ”
“The interview consists of two parts: a 45 min LC style coding and 15 mins conversation on your prior projects. The 45 min question was to build an arithmetic evaluator. For that, you have to use the Shunting Yard algorithm. It was only "+", "-", "(" and ")". I'm not sure if we would have used more operators, maybe some with precedence, if I had gone further. I had a hard time understanding the interviewer. I learned later on from Chat that you should contact your recruiter immediately if this happens.”
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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.”
