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“Fairly solid process. Recruiter was helpful with quick turnaround. Felt a little rushed during team match”
“Recruiter call and 1st round scheduled in March 2025 which was people management. Next round System Design and scheduled in March 2025. Cleared both and next round schedule in in May. which was again System Design. Post that code review round was scheduled in June and finally Googlyness in July. IN Augst got result that all rounds were positive, still waiting for team matching.”
“In my case, I felt very well-prepared. I had done three mock interviews before Stripe and walked into the process confident in my readiness. However, the actual experience varied drastically depending on the engagement level of the interviewers. During the Execution and Strategy interview, one panelist had their video off the entire time, and the main interviewer never once made eye contact; his camera was angled at his forehead while he typed throughout. He rushed through questions without engaging meaningfully with my answers, and the lack of interaction made it extremely difficult to build any rapport or demonstrate depth. In contrast, the management round, held 45 minutes later, was far more conversational and created space for a thoughtful exchange. That difference matters. I did not make it through the process, and while I’m open to having fallen short on some answers, I also believe that interviewers have a responsibility to create an environment where candidates can do their best work. Unfortunately, that wasn’t consistently the case here. It’s disappointing to receive a rejection without any feedback, especially after investing so much time and energy. Interviews should be designed to bring out the best in candidates. I hope this note is taken seriously and helps improve the process for others.”
“Relatively easy compared to the rest of big tech. A lot of depends on who you get as an interviewer. ”
“Pretty straight forward. More focused on the people and operations skills than the technical. The technical was slightly validated by take home.”
“One of the manager took the system design and the rtecuiter was not comminicated thos before. each round 1hr, 40 min spent on system design”
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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.”
