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“Overall positive experience – people very friendly and sharp. Mostly behavioral interviews, with deep dive on prior work. There was 1+ week of silence after final round. Think it was because the recruiter got reassigned. ”
“The process was smooth. What didn't go well/how to practice better: - grinding to solve problem under 30 minutes”
“The process went well. The screening round itself has two interviews: the behavioral one and the technical one. I didn't do well on the technical one, so the behavioral one was very much a formality, and it was very clear that the person had seen the feedback. ”
“The process was very practical and not leetcodey at all, though knowing the fundamentals like different types of traversals, rate limiting primitives, scheduling policies did help. The interview process is a bit long, lots of wait between rounds but overall, it's smooth. ”
“A thorough, well-structured process: recruiter screen, hiring manager screen, a take-home case, a virtual onsite of four rounds (product sense, bar raiser/culture, technical execution, ML fundamentals), and a final conversation with a senior product leader. The interviewers were friendly, engaged and clearly hands-on practitioners. Each round probed a different angle, so you get to show range. The recruiting team was responsive and gave candid feedback mid-process, which I appreciated. What didn't go as well was logistics near the end. A late-stage round was cancelled at short notice and rerouted to a different interviewer, who treated it like an early screen, so I wasn't sure what was left. With interviewers across time zones, some slots also fell late in my evening. I didn't get an offer. Looking back, the gap was answer length and audience awareness in the senior rounds, not technical depth.”
“Overall, the process was pretty smooth: application, online assessment, then two virtual interviews. The OA and coding rounds went well because the questions were standard DSA and I was comfortable explaining my approach and complexity. The behavioral portions also felt solid once I got into my STAR examples. The hardest part was handling follow-up questions and changing constraints in real time, especially when I had to rethink an approach while still communicating clearly.”
“The process was smooth and quite fast. The first round was linux basics and second was coding but in a debugging environment.”
“The interview went smoothly overall. 1 round of phone screen followed by the full loop of 4 rounds packed in a day. 2 coding 1 behavior 1 system design.”
“The question seems deceptively simple but its very hard to understand how to start and stay structured.”
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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.”
