| ▲ | zeroCalories 7 hours ago |
| It shocks me that anyone supposedly good enough for anthropic would subject themselves to such a one sided waste of time. |
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| ▲ | pclmulqdq 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I generally have a policy of "over 4 hours and I charge for my time." I did this in the 4-hour window, and it was a lot of fun. Much better than many other take-home assignments. |
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| ▲ | heavyset_go 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't do take home assignments, but when I did, I would offer to do it at my hourly rate, even if it was just an hour. It's time I would otherwise spend making money. Anyone worth working with respected that and I landed several clients who forwent the assignment altogether. It's chump change in the grand scheme of things, and often a formality. Does help that I have a very public web presence and portfolio, though. | | |
| ▲ | theptip 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For many reasons, you’re not gonna get into Anthropic with that attitude. | | | |
| ▲ | dheera 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Time is the issue, not money. I couldn't care less about getting paid for a few hours, what's truly annoying when you're job hunting is the company having an extremely high rejection rate even at the take-home stage. That's an inordinate waste of time multiplied by a lot of companies. If you have a >50% chance of rejecting, don't even give the candidate a take-home. Be at least 90% sure you want them before you get to that stage. |
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| ▲ | whateveracct 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 4 hours continuous or no? I can't imagine finding 4 hours of straight focus. | | |
| ▲ | ryanjshaw 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | These kinds of roles are for youngsters with minimal commitments who are looking for their shot to break into a wild industry. It’s not for the middle aged single parent with FTE and just enough free time to do an extra load of laundry. | |
| ▲ | saagarjha 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Continuous |
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| ▲ | djmips 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you look at it as a puzzle game then it's not any different than the time you use to play other games. |
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| ▲ | browningstreet 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’ve been sent the Anthropic interview assignments a few times. I’m not a developer so I don’t bother. At least at the time they didn’t seem to have technical but not-dev screenings. Maybe they do now. |
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| ▲ | throwa356262 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Care to elaborate the first part? Did you apply for a position? Did they send you the assignment without prior discussion? |
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| ▲ | sealeck 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why is writing code to execute a program using the fewest instructions possible on a virtual machine a waste of time? |
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| ▲ | 0x3f 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The expected time you spend on it is much less than the expected time they'll spend on it. | |
| ▲ | efilife 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | you don't get paid for it |
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| ▲ | mips_avatar 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It’s kind of an interesting problem. |
