I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to

Re:I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about i... by wiz21c on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:19AM (#43026825)

I doubt so. Open ended questions like "generating ideas" allows the interviewer to judge what your level of reasoning is. If you propose "add more GPU" or "let's tweak the transformer parameters with some quantization, like in this research article published a year ago" it makes a huge difference.

IOW the expectations are hidden from the interviewed person.

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Re:I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about i... by blitzar on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:22AM (#43026858)

Open ended questions like generating ideas was the "Culture Fit" session (and if it wasnt or the company doesnt realise it is then it is an even bigger problem)

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Re:I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about i... by mannyv on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:20PM (#43028115)

Culture fit is a funny thing. I was set up for an interview and one of the things was a take-home tic tac toe.

I asked "uh, what's the point when I can just ask ChatGPT to do this? Is there something else I could be doing?" And I was instantly dinged because I didn't align with their culture. Which I guess is true, since I'm not into time-wasting questions that aren't even fun.

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Re:I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about i... by toyg on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:17PM (#43030360)

Or rather, you're not into "following orders without challenging them first". What the order is, doesn't really matter.

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