Two phone screens and a take-home assignment that took around 4-5 hours total to complete. Overall a good experience but with minimal feedback on the assignment that was a good chunk of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you handle a candidate who was told they were a 'no' but then got angry and wanted specific feedback?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Anthropic
Interview
referred in thru friend. fairly standard first call (albeit with a contract recruiter), then a chat w/ a recruiting manager, followed by a takehome/onsite.
I have several good friends who worked there but dropped out before the onsite, given it seemed a bit chaotic and groupthink-y. There is a detailed process, which is a plus, but it's pretty slow and there was confusion about whether I should do a takehome or not. Also, lots of talk about diversity but the definition seems to be fairly narrow (top school, top companies, talk/act a certain way) - one of my interviewers compared it to their ultra competitive high school. I'm guessing there will be a lot of growing pains for the team as things scale beyond the founders, though I think they'll overall still draw enough talent who wants to work with cutting edge AI teams to succeed.
Ended up dropping out to pursue other opportunities and cancelled the onsite
