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Flunking my Anthropic interview again

(taylor.town)
369 points surprisetalk | 6 comments | 29 Aug 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.337s | source | bottom
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bigfickpm ◴[29 Aug 25 14:31 UTC] No.45064634[source]▶
I wish I could unread this, gonna wash my eyes now
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1. jckahn ◴[29 Aug 25 14:39 UTC] No.45064751[source]▶
Why?
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4. almostgotcaught ◴[29 Aug 25 14:56 UTC] No.45064977[source]▶
Because it's cringe. I'll never understand why people publish essentially personal diary entries in public spaces. It must be some kind of shame kink.
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5. mock-possum ◴[29 Aug 25 15:12 UTC] No.45065195[source]▶
100% agree—

> The first time I flunked an Anthropic interview (ca. 2022), I accidentally clicked a wrong button during their automated coding challenge. It was easy to swallow that failure. I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews.

> This is different. I didn't misclick any buttons. My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough.

That’s a physically difficult passage for me to read, what an awful way to talk about yourself.

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6. leoff ◴[31 Aug 25 08:20 UTC] No.45081445{3}[source]▶
>>My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough. >what an awful way to talk about yourself

He's is not completely wrong with his line of thought, but I agree it's awful.

It took me long to figure this out for myself, the truth is that OP needs to grow up, and this is the perfect opportunity to do it.