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Flunking my Anthropic interview again

(taylor.town)
369 points surprisetalk | 4 comments | 29 Aug 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ilc ◴[29 Aug 25 14:49 UTC] No.45064892[source]▶
You be you. You will find your people and your place.

It may just be that Anthropic isn't it.

I had a company that was like a white elephant for me for a long time. Got in there, and I will say: It was one of the worst experiences I had in my career.

Not all that glitters is gold, and happiness is often only discovered when it is gone. If you can avoid those two pitfalls in life. You'll do well better than me.

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1. bowsamic ◴[29 Aug 25 18:51 UTC] No.45067951[source]▶
I can’t imagine why someone would want to work for a specific company. Even team to team can go from terrible experience to great experience
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2. jama211 ◴[29 Aug 25 19:12 UTC] No.45068179[source]▶
It shouldn’t surprise you that people like the work or products specific companies work on and have a dream to work on those too. The actual experience of working there though is hard to know in advance.
3. ilc ◴[29 Aug 25 19:15 UTC] No.45068213[source]▶
In my case, it was more: It was a company where we just kept near missing, and it was a very logical fit.

But it was a bad team fit. 100%.

That said, sometimes one has to have a few bad experiences to actually know what good is.

4. MarcelOlsz ◴[29 Aug 25 19:16 UTC] No.45068217[source]▶
RSU's. Nothing less, nothing more.