I was referred internally and felt lucky that the questions I got were standard interview questions. **Phone Screen:** I solved LeetCode 362 in 25 minutes. I spent another 10 minutes discussing tradeoffs, such as when to clear the queue, how to handle backgrou...
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I was asked to write code to evaluate simple addition and subtraction expressions given as strings. The interviewer provided a few examples: "add(1,2)" -> 3 "sub(3,1)" -> 2 "add(1, sub(3,1))" -> 3 I chose to use backtracking. The first three characters determi...
#### Phone Screen The phone screen was an OOD / data structure design question. The problem was roughly: given a stream of visitor records, where each record contains a visitor name and a timestamp, design a system that can answer queries for a given timestamp...
During the phone screen, I spent half the time on a coding question and the other half on a system design question. The coding question was LeetCode 369 (Plus One Linked List). The system design question was: Assume there are 1 million devices, each sending a...
I spoke with a recruiter and immediately received an invitation for a technical phone screen without even submitting a resume, which makes me think they're hiring aggressively. The interviewer spoke very slowly. We started with system design, and by the time t...
My interview process consisted of three rounds. First, I had an HR screening where I was asked standard questions about why I wanted to work at the company and my job search timeline. A week later, I had a phone screen which focused on React coding. I had to i...
After the Online Assessment, I had two Virtual Onsite rounds, each lasting one hour. **Round 1:** The interviewer was an SDE. The interviewer was very friendly, supportive, and chill. I spent about 40 minutes answering behavioral questions. The next 20 minutes...
I was given two coding questions: 1. Given an array, I can perform two operations: (1) move the first element to the last position, or (2) flip the entire array. The goal is to find the minimum number of steps to transform the given array into a sorted array....
I'm sharing my interview experience at Anthropic. The process was more focused on AI scenarios than I expected. Overall, it was smooth, but the difficulty was high. **Recruiter Screen:** I had been a heavy user of Claude and had studied its product logic. I se...
**Round 1:** I was given a set of node groups (e.g., `[[1],[2,3],[4,5,6]]`) and had to connect all groups into a connected graph. The connection method was to randomly select one node from two different groups and create an edge. The requirement was to connect...
