I recently took their CodeSignal assessment, which is part of their initial screening process.
Oh, wow. I really believe they are missing out on great engineers due to the nature of it.
90 minutes to implement a series of increasingly difficult specs and pass all the unit tests.
There is zero consideration for quality of code. My email from the recruiter said (verbatim), βthe CodeSignal screen is intended to test your ability to quickly and correctly write and refactor working code. You will not be evaluated on code quality.β
It was my first time ever taking a CodeSignal assessment and there was really no way to prepare for it ahead of time.
Anthropic interview is nebulous. You get a coding interview. Fast paced, little time, 100% pass mark.
Then they chat to you for half an hour to gauge your ethics. Maybe I was too honest :)
I'm really bad at the "essay" subjects vsm the "hard" subjects so at that point I was dumped.