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Anthropic phone interview

Interviewed: Feb 2026

Which one is Anthropic Q2, file dedupe or lru cache?

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Anthropic weird recruiter screen

Interviewed: Feb 2026

Got a referral from a friend for a pretraining infra role. On Monday I got an HR reachout and scheduled a quick call. At first everything was normal: went through my work experienc...

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AI safety

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Anthropic phone screen

Interviewed: Feb 2026

I interviewed with Anthropic using CodeSignal.

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Implement web crawler

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LRU Cache

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Anthropic Phone Screen pass

Interviewed: Feb 2026

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OpenAI Phone Screen

Interviewed: Feb 2026

I recently had a technical phone interview with OpenAI. The coding problem was about an “infection spread” simulation. I made it to Part 4 but still had a small bug I didn’t finish...

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OpenAI recent phone screen

Interviewed: Feb 2026

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OpenAI RE interview experience

Interviewed: Feb 2026

Applied late last year via cold application to OpenAI RE org, got a recruiter intro call, completed 4 rounds of technical interviews, then got stuck.

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OpenAI Research Engineer Onsite

Interviewed: Feb 2026

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OpenAI Recruiter Screen

Interviewed: Feb 2026

Reached out by a recruiter, then had an HR interview. The HR spoke extremely fast, they really do move fast. Asked what I’m currently working on. Why I want to join. Their recruite...

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Why OpenAI?

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