Seems like you dodged a bullet.
I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
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Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#22Sure. From the employers perspective, I get the appeal of references. As a candidate I find them to be a huge overstep and will almost never provide them. No, I’m sorry. I’m not going to pester my friends and colleagues to “hop on a quick call” or fill out a 2 page survey every time I interview somewhere. Quite frankly, I really don’t need or want my friends to be intimately involved in my job search. This poor guy h…
> Sure. From the employers perspective, I get the appeal of references. Respectfully, it doesn't seem like you do. References in many cases are actually needed for compliance purposes. An example for Anthropic is if the employee might be exposed to medical data, then reference checks can be used as part of a larger validation of employee identity to satisfy HIPAA requirements. Amazon and others have the importance of…
Don't you mean background checks? A company sees the value in talking to 4 people of the candidates choice for HIPAA is just sad.
Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Nevertheless, based on the process, it sounds like they will end up hiring pretty medicore candidates. What would you change in order to hire higher quality people?
Its the answer nobody hiring wants to hear, spend more (skilled not hr) human time screening and interviewing the candidates. The process outlined put a stronger emphasis on luck, and catching fire in the 6 minutes you had than skill.
Don't forget the inevitable emphasis on "grinding Leetcode."
Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#24This would be a more compelling post if it wasn't written in Linkedin Standard English.
I found OP's English to be fine and the article sounded authentic. Nothing like "LinkedIn fluff".
Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#25Sure. From the employers perspective, I get the appeal of references. As a candidate I find them to be a huge overstep and will almost never provide them. No, I’m sorry. I’m not going to pester my friends and colleagues to “hop on a quick call” or fill out a 2 page survey every time I interview somewhere. Quite frankly, I really don’t need or want my friends to be intimately involved in my job search. This poor guy h…
> Sure. From the employers perspective, I get the appeal of references. Respectfully, it doesn't seem like you do. References in many cases are actually needed for compliance purposes. An example for Anthropic is if the employee might be exposed to medical data, then reference checks can be used as part of a larger validation of employee identity to satisfy HIPAA requirements. Amazon and others have the importance of…
> References in many cases are actually needed for compliance purposes.
Those aren’t the kind of checks we’re talking about. In any case, those can be performed once an offer is made.
Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sure. From the employers perspective, I get the appeal of references. Respectfully, it doesn't seem like you do. References in many cases are actually needed for compliance purposes. An example for Anthropic is if the employee might be exposed to medical data, then reference checks can be used as part of a larger validation of employee identity to satisfy HIPAA requirements. Amazon and others have the importance of…
> References in many cases are actually needed for compliance purposes. Those aren’t the kind of checks we’re talking about. In any case, those can be performed once an offer is made.
It's the exact same checks. I know this because I've had to fill out some of these compliance documents and implement similar sorts of procedures with the legal dept. In addition to background checks, candidate reference calls prior to onboarding are becoming a checkbox that must be ticked by various external groups.
And to clarify, it's not something I support or that I find it makes a lot of sense to me -- it's just an unfortunate situation of where things are currently at.
Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Open ended questions like generating ideas was the "Culture Fit" session (and if it wasnt or the company doesnt realise it is then it is an even bigger problem)
Culture fit is a funny thing. I was set up for an interview and one of the things was a take-home tic tac toe. I asked "uh, what's the point when I can just ask ChatGPT to do this? Is there something else I could be doing?" And I was instantly dinged because I didn't align with their culture. Which I guess is true, since I'm not into time-wasting questions that aren't even fun.
Or rather, you're not into "following orders without challenging them first". What the order is, doesn't really matter.
Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#28yeah, interviews like that are artifical bullshit interviews whose main purpose is ensure conformity with the way the company thinks rather seek innovation. Be glad you didnt make it thru
Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> References in many cases are actually needed for compliance purposes. Those aren’t the kind of checks we’re talking about. In any case, those can be performed once an offer is made.
It's the exact same checks. I know this because I've had to fill out some of these compliance documents and implement similar sorts of procedures with the legal dept. In addition to background checks, candidate reference calls prior to onboarding are becoming a checkbox that must be ticked by various external groups. And to clarify, it's not something I support or that I find it makes a lot of sense to me -- it's jus…
You run legal compliance on everyone interviewing for a job? What a waste of everyone’s time. Very inefficient and expensive. Do it after an offer is extended.
Re: I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its the answer nobody hiring wants to hear, spend more (skilled not hr) human time screening and interviewing the candidates. The process outlined put a stronger emphasis on luck, and catching fire in the 6 minutes you had than skill.
Don't forget the inevitable emphasis on "grinding Leetcode."
As usual the best existing employees would fail the interview process.