Anthropic onsite done, now the culture round has me spiraling
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Onsite days always feel like a fog after the fact, hope you hear back soon either way.
Wait the tail end trace question sounds rough, did they give you any hint at all or just let you flail? I've heard variations of that stack trace question come up a few times.
No hints at all honestly, felt like I was just talking out loud hoping I'd land somewhere close to what they wanted lol.
How much time did you actually get on the doc review round before they moved you to followups? Curious how much of that was on you versus just the format being weird.
When I had something similar it felt like there was no clean signal for how much time to spend marking versus discussing, kind of a trap either way tbh.
The culture round vagueness is so real, I went through mine a few months back and still didn't know if I passed until the offer came. Try not to read into the blank interviewer face too much.
Rooting for you, sounds like you handled the coding stuff okay even with the messy followup. Fingers crossed on the rest.
How long was the phone screen ? Seems like a lot to write, if you had to implement an in-memory filesystem, to test it out.