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“Started with background discussion. Interviewer asked about a specific project i mentioned on the resume and dug into details. As for the coding challenge, I was given an existing package which contained an API for reading 4 bytes of data at a type from a file. To read 10 bytes, we had to call this underlying API 3 times to get 12 bytes, respond back with the requested 10 bytes, and keep the extra 2 bytes of data in memory for future calls. I solved this with a queue-based implementation, handling edge cases around reaching the end of the file. Got follow-up questions related to handling API call failures, retries, and streaming the output.”
“Some of the interviews are very formulaic. When they ask about management experience they first start by asking what is the largest org you've managed, and then all following questions are about that org. The largest org I had managed was at a bank which doesn't have the greatest parallels to draw from. If I had better understood the format I would have answered with the bank, but explicitly stated that it's not a good analogy lets talk about this slightly smaller org because it's closer to you guys. Instead, this conversation happened at the end.”
“Friendly recruiter screening (looking for good communication) and senior PM (mini-case). Mini-case was easy. Power day is ahead (final), and reportedly has much lower low pass rate. Calculators allowed, so evaluation is focused more on thinking and communication. ”
“The process and the questions were more or less what I expected. I thought that they would provide a take home assessment but instead in was directly invited to the call and answer questions there. ”
“The process was straightforward, recruiter call followed by online assessment. Depending on the assessment, you are invited for a virtual on-site, with coding and system design. If you succeed, then there is a deep dive project round and finally behavioral. Interview is split into stages.”
“The process was smooth. The coding assessment(SQL) section needs serious preparation before any attempt. The case study section was as per expecations and followed the generic pattern.”
“It was really fun because they asked stuff that I knew but it was very factual, like actual problem-solving.”
“It was really fast, about 2 weeks total, I felt like I answered the qeustions perfectly but I didn't make it to the full loop round. ”
“Very fast paced interview with lots of behavioural and analytical qus. Some interviewers were more intense than others. ”
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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.”
