Anthropic - Company Culture - Software Engineer
Anthropic - Company Culture - Software Engineer
Time at Company: 8 months
Coming up on 8 months here after leaving a bigger lab. The mission part is genuinely real, people argue about AI safety tradeoffs in random Slack threads all the time, no onboarding required.
Pace is intense though. Review cycles go deep, and expectations shift as the roadmap shifts, so there's real pressure to stay sharp even outside your own team's scope.
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yeah the review cycles hit different once the roadmap actually shifts mid quarter
exactly, feels like the bar keeps moving even when your actual output doesn't change
checks out from what I've heard secondhand too
curious how this compares to openai on the mission vs pace tradeoff, anyone been at both
sounds about right, I left after a year for similar reasons, work was great, pace wasn't sustainable for me
did you land somewhere with a better pace or just trade one intensity for another
ambiguity is the part that would get me honestly, need more structure than that