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Flunking my Anthropic interview again

(taylor.town)
369 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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iLoveOncall ◴[29 Aug 25 14:33 UTC] No.45064655[source]▶
> take-home assignment

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

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whatamidoingyo ◴[29 Aug 25 14:43 UTC] No.45064790[source]▶
> 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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1. slipperydippery ◴[29 Aug 25 14:52 UTC] No.45064922[source]▶
If a take-home or anything else (automated half-hour online test or whatever) taking more than a couple minutes and not requiring as much time investment from them as you comes before they've winnowed down much of the field—if it's used as any kind of screener—I'd be out. That time's better spent sending more applications (or, IDK, drilling leetcode) if there are more than a very-few candidates still in the running for a given position.

If you want early stage bulk screeners, go for it, I'm sure you need them, but don't take much of my time or the math don't math.