Applying at Anthropic was a bad experience for me. I was invited to do a timed set of leetcode exercises on some website. I didn't feel like doing that, and focused on my other applications.

Then they emailed me a month later after my "invitation" expired. It looked like it was written by a human: "Hey, we're really interested in your profile, here's a new invite link, please complete this automated pre-screen thingie".

So I swallowed my pride and went through with that humiliating exercise. Ended up spending two hours doing algorithmic leetcode problems. This was for a product security position. Maybe we could have talked about vulnerabilities that I have found instead.

I was too slow to solve them and received some canned response.

fyi, that's because (from experience) the last job req I publicly posted generated almost 450 responses, and (quite generously) over a third were simply not relevant. It was for a full-stack rails eng. Here, I'm not even including people whose experience was django or even React; I mean people with no web experience at all, or were not in the time zone requested. Another 20% or so were nowhere near the experience level (senior) requested either.

The price of people bulk applying with no thought is I have to bulk filter.

So you allow yourself to use AI in order to save time, but we have to put up with the shit[1] companies make up? That's good, it's for the best if I don't work for a company that thinks so lowly of its potential candidates.

[1]: Including but not limited to: having to manually fill a web form because the system couldn't correctly parse a CV; take-home coding challenges; studying for LeetCode interviews; sending a perfectly worded, boot-licking cover letter.