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Flunking my Anthropic interview again

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Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again

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Post by anon35 »

saagarjha wrote: post #307
htrp wrote: post #273

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All it takes is 1 candidate with an axe to grind and I guarantee you'll never give feedback again.

It's fine to build a better world until then.

"Until then" means others will pay for your decision to ignore policy when it happens. It's never on the person who -- with every good intention, full of an instinct to "build a better world" -- willfully ignores the stuffy rules in handbooks and HR guidelines. Instead, when it backfires and someone does threaten to sue, it's precisely execs, HRs, legal who have to deal with it. The rules are there for good reason.

Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again

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Post by edelwiess »

I know there are comments here ridiculing the OP about posting this. Some asking OP to be stronger. All I want to say is posting something like this takes way more strength than what those commenters will ever allow themselves to experience. Expressing is a way of healing and no the internet is not a cold dry space. It is a place of feeling humans who could all use encouragement to show vulnerability like this. I don’t know if OP got some healing from this but a lot of similarly lost readers felt a little less alone.

Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again

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Post by latexr »

eszed wrote: post #189
wjrb wrote: post #147

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Hey, my first "career" was also in theater! Strong agreement. I can confirm for other readers that the day I realized this --- "Oh, rejection means nothing!" --- was a weird day. It takes a weight off. And it is true across every other field. There are way more factors external to the "you" of the decision, and they're given more weight than the "you" of the decision. This is one of those cases where you only need to…

Hey! Good to meet a fellow artist. I made it to 40 before I sold out. You? One thing outsiders don't understand is that, for actors, auditioning IS the job. Getting cast, and working on a show, is a joy (some more than others, of course!), but the rest of your life is nothing, nothing but looking for work. The were two things that made that "it's all cool" shift happen for me. The first is that once I'd been in the i…

> I made it to 40 before I sold out.

Do you mean you sold out in the arts or in the sense that you changed careers? If the former, I’d be curious to hear (well, read) the story since that’s not an admission one typically encounters.

Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again

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Post by hardwaresofton »

Dear OP, start a high quality AI code YouTube/Twitch/Substack and you’ll do more “devrel” than they ever could.

If it’s really your favorite thing, your content will be world class.

If you do this, I’ll be your first paid sub. Get in the arena, OP (and maybe don’t quit your day job until you’ve gained much more steam! :)

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Post by WalterBright »

saagarjha wrote: post #307
htrp wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All it takes is 1 candidate with an axe to grind and I guarantee you'll never give feedback again.

It's fine to build a better world until then.

A better world would be one with no locks on doors. But until then, I'm going to lock doors.

Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again

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Post by saagarjha »

WalterBright wrote: post #316
saagarjha wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fine to build a better world until then.

A better world would be one with no locks on doors. But until then, I'm going to lock doors.

Plenty of people keep their doors unlocked until they get stolen from.

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Post by kristopolous »

jp57 wrote: post #68

One great piece of advice an informal mentor gave me long ago is that there is no information in a rejection . That is to say that you cannot draw any conclusions about yourself or your interviewing technique or your skills or anything from the single accept==0 bit that you typically get back. There are so many reasons that a candidate might get rejected that have nothing to do with one's individual performance in th…

I Always give reasons, to them, at the time, if I know them.

There's a real reason. Maybe my perception is bad, maybe they misspoke, maybe they can explain something...

I don't want to be a fool and let a his candidate go.

I'm really picky but I'm also extremely forgiving and believe in improving the person and making it a beneficial experience regardless of the outcome.

Other people don't do this because I dunno, my pet theory is most people forget to be adults

Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again

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Post by notyouraibot »

Yeah, I recently had an offer letter in hand, the company flew me out to do a final security review since it was a sensitive cyber sec role, did a 2-hour long polygraph test which went quite well honestly, but then 3 weeks later they told me they have decided to move ahead with another candidate? Made no sense and broke me down for weeks. Totally defeated. I still don't understand how they could move ahead with another candidate if they had already given me an official offer letter, but eh life goes on I suppose.

Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again

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Post by bubblethink »

tibbar wrote: post #110

I recently did a round of interviews at various AI companies, including model labs, coding assistants, and data vendors. My first takeaway is that, wow! the interviews are very hard, and the bar is high. Second, these companies are all selecting for the top 0.1% of some metric - but they use different metrics. For example, the coding assistant interview focused on writing (what I felt was) an insane volume of code in…

They are all roundabout ways of getting to IQ. It used to be Leetcode but since that has become a known quantity and quite gamified, the interviews have evolved. Most of all, I have seen that there is crazy focus on speed and volume. Do a lot, read a lot of code, in little time. They've also adapted for AI coding tools. So the interviews have a debugging component, or take homes are open web, open tools, but again really compressed timelines.
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