If Anthropic hiring is indicative of a world with artificial intelligence, it will be a sad world indeed.
First, you receive an invitation to complete a codesignal screening problem. The e-mail is sent from an automated service. If you do less than perfect, you will receive an automated rejection letter (so it seems).
If you pass, you move onto a hiring manager screen. This is the first time you get to meet a human being.
If you pass, you move onto four 55 minute interviews with 5 minute breaks. Three are technical, one is a personality study. None of them seem to care much about your past experience or expertise, no one will ask.
That's where it ends for me. I received a generic rejection letter from a person I had never met or talked to letting me know "it was great meeting you".
I understand they must be inundated with applications. And I will have to accept that most of the working world is moving away from a human touch.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Screener: 4 part question
Interview 1: 2 part data mutation question.
Interview 2: 3 part sorting question.
Interview 3: Many part architecture question.
Interview 4: Open-ended questions.
They sent me an automated CodeSignal test before I ever spoke to a human, which consisted of 4 stages of the same problem with each stage getting progressively more complex. Did not progress beyond this stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They sent me an automated CodeSignal test before I ever spoke to a human, which consisted of 4 stages of the same problem with each stage getting progressively more complex. Did not progress beyond this stage.
The interview loop at Anthropic is completely different from the standard FAANG pipeline. They do not care about your ability to speed run algorithms. The entire process is built around "First Principles" thinking and writing extremely robust and safe code. After the recruiter screen, I had a deep dive pair programming session with an engineer. It felt much more like a collaborative work session than a test. They want to see how you handle edge cases and system failures in real time. I was asked to build a reliable message ingestion component that could handle streaming data with unpredictable latency spikes.
Applied online, had an initial recruiter screen and a few technical rounds. Did not make it to onsite. Questions were pretty difficult and thoughtful, different than typical coding and system designs online.
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