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“Practice. Technical python. You explain your thought process clearly, especially when walking through grid problems or autonomy architecture. You sound like an engineer who has actually built systems”
“Smooth process overall but did take a while after the final to hear back about the offer (over a month) potentially due to headcount being still figured out at the time. Questions were easy - medium LC questions.”
“Phone screen was an hour long followed by 5 member loop. I also had to do a presentation as well.The focus are on technical breadth, technical depth and then leadership principles like learn and be curious, disagree and commit, Bias for action, ownership”
“the process is very smooth, everyone is very helpful and nice. the questions were straightforward and not too hard”
“Friendly interviewers, thorough with their questions. Questions focused on GCP, BigQuery, Apache Beam (Dataflow)”
“It was a good experience but I was able to find something else so I'm glad it didn't work out. The recruiter was nice but the hiring manager seemed a bit distracted and in the end it wasn't a good fit.”
“The process was fine and there was really little feedback during the interview so i couldnt tell how i did ”
“After the recruiting screen, I had a call with a bar raiser / very senior PM at the company. Hiring manager interview where they dug into my past work experience, strategy, and impact The interview was focused on platform thinking and was pretty challenging but reasonable. The final round included an interview panel session with another PM of a similar level, the hiring manager, and the director of the team I was interviewing for. I walked them through my product proposal and they dug into the technical / UX trade-offs of the decisions I made”
“One of the technical rounds was ridiculous, a LC hard (LC3548) ML Systems Design was pretty standard - design a recommender system Behavioral round fairly standard”
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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.”
