applied online, recruiter phone screen, then jumping right into systems design interview over the phone on your preferred whiteboarding website. Application and recruiter phone screen were quite fast turnaround and pleasant.
Systems design interviewer was rude, interrupting me when drawing a single box on the diagram after I explain what I'm doing. It seemed the interviewer wanted to show off his knowledge rather than ask me questions. Interviewer also seemed to not understand the problem statement himself, as I clarified assumptions and diagrammed it out, and then he kept derailing by revoking the assumptions that we previously agreed upon every few minutes. Overall, I think the interviewer was garbage, but maybe there are better interviewers at the company.
Turnaround time to hear back after the systems design was pretty terrible. I honestly thought I was ghosted. Communication was poor.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
practical systems design question related to LLMs, but LLM experience not necessary and won't help you
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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