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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 us-merul »

I totally get the author’s frustration. I think such motivation and talent is a sign that there would be plenty of other groups happy to have the applicant. The trick to is connect with them, and not get so hung up on Anthropic specifically. Easier said than done though.

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Post by pyzhianov »

The reasons why companies hire or don't hire someone usually have very little with the candidate themselves. From my experience, whenever this machine needs another cog, almost any will do - usually the first one within reach. And when it doesn't, not even the shiniest one will be of interest. So it's probably nothing personal OP

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Post by endymion-light »

As someone that recently failed a tech interview at the last stage after a long search, the only way to move forward is to just keep moving. Given your motivation and passion, there's definitely another place for you.

Also important to note, just because you like the product doesn't mean you'll love the team, anthropic is a well paying job but it's also just a job.

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Post by whatamidoingyo »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #4

> take-home assignment That's the point at which I would have stopped the process personally.

> That's the point at which I would have stopped the process personally.

Why is that? I love take-home assignments. At least, if it's just an initial get-to-know-you interview, and then the assignment. What I utterly despise is the get-to-know-you interview, then a tech interview with the entire dev team, then a take-home, then a meeting with the CTO.

I will never, ever, ever go through with any job that has an interview process like this again. I always ask up-front what their interview process is like.

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