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To be fair with Anthropic, they probably get unfathomably many applications for everything, on top of the cold calls/emails. They're one of the hottest companie

To be fair with Anthropic, they probably get unfathomably many applications for everything, on top of the cold calls/emails. They're one of the hottest companies in the world, so I'd expect tens of thousands of applicants. Media writing about $100m+ hiring deals in AI does not help, either.

vdupras 1y ago
Aren't they an AI company? Couldn't they sort it out? If Anthropic, of all companies, can't sort out incoming job applications, what exactly are their tools for?
- Workaccount2 1y ago
  Compute is a precious resource. The world is also full of totally delusional people who dreamed up the idea of using winzip to compress VRAM on the GPU, and now Anthropic will definitely hire them for $1M year for this genius solution, so better write up a glammed up resume and auto-send it once a day for any open position.
  - pavel_lishin 1y ago
    Is it? What I've been marketed is that AI is widely available for every task I could conceptually think of, and that I should be using it for everything.
  - vdupras 1y ago
    Opportunity also is a precious resource. Redirecting resume to /dev/null is wasting it. I have a hard time believing that LLMs, with all their sophistication, aren't ideally suited for this task.
    - hinkley 1y ago
      I don’t know how slighting customers who want to work for you works out in the long term. You end up getting fewer opportunities from them and their friends in the future. Seattle is full of people who will tell you what it’s like to work for Amazon and how you don’t want to work there. I guess if you’re big enough though the money papers over a lot of sins. The smaller you are, the more people you can piss off before you run out of prospects. Anthropocene still has a long way to go before they are Facebook, who struggles because something like 50% of the people who would work for FB already have.
  - bbor 1y ago
    IDK, compute isn't really that precious. If $20/mo can get you many (?) invocations of their research agent, I feel like it could pretty easily be worth it to screen applications for jobs that pay $350K/year -- and that's just "entry-level"![1] That said, their career page puts this at the very top of the details section: We value direct evidence of ability: If you’ve done interesting independent research, written an insightful blog post, or made substantial contributions to open-source software, put that at the top of your resume! This guy seems rad, but his GitHub[2] and this blog are both light details or links, which is odd considering that his LinkedIn[3] is detailed+professional. Perhaps Anthropic does have Claude screening resumes, but he didn't express the nature of the situation clearly enough for it to catch it? Otherwise, the only other explanation I see that doesn't look terrible for Anthropic is they didn't see a need for more Rust expertise...? [1] https://www.levels.fyi/companies/anthropic/salaries/software-engineer?country=254 https://www.levels.fyi/companies/anthropic/salaries/software... [2] https://github.com/pentamassiv https://github.com/pentamassiv [3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/robingrell/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/robingrell/
- mstaoru 1y ago
  > what exactly are their tools for? Obviously, for writing and sending said job applications.
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vdupras 1y ago

Aren't they an AI company? Couldn't they sort it out? If Anthropic, of all companies, can't sort out incoming job applications, what exactly are their tools for?

Workaccount2 1y ago
Compute is a precious resource. The world is also full of totally delusional people who dreamed up the idea of using winzip to compress VRAM on the GPU, and now Anthropic will definitely hire them for $1M year for this genius solution, so better write up a glammed up resume and auto-send it once a day for any open position.
- pavel_lishin 1y ago
  Is it? What I've been marketed is that AI is widely available for every task I could conceptually think of, and that I should be using it for everything.
- vdupras 1y ago
  Opportunity also is a precious resource. Redirecting resume to /dev/null is wasting it. I have a hard time believing that LLMs, with all their sophistication, aren't ideally suited for this task.
  - hinkley 1y ago
    I don’t know how slighting customers who want to work for you works out in the long term. You end up getting fewer opportunities from them and their friends in the future. Seattle is full of people who will tell you what it’s like to work for Amazon and how you don’t want to work there. I guess if you’re big enough though the money papers over a lot of sins. The smaller you are, the more people you can piss off before you run out of prospects. Anthropocene still has a long way to go before they are Facebook, who struggles because something like 50% of the people who would work for FB already have.
- bbor 1y ago
  IDK, compute isn't really that precious. If $20/mo can get you many (?) invocations of their research agent, I feel like it could pretty easily be worth it to screen applications for jobs that pay $350K/year -- and that's just "entry-level"![1] That said, their career page puts this at the very top of the details section: We value direct evidence of ability: If you’ve done interesting independent research, written an insightful blog post, or made substantial contributions to open-source software, put that at the top of your resume! This guy seems rad, but his GitHub[2] and this blog are both light details or links, which is odd considering that his LinkedIn[3] is detailed+professional. Perhaps Anthropic does have Claude screening resumes, but he didn't express the nature of the situation clearly enough for it to catch it? Otherwise, the only other explanation I see that doesn't look terrible for Anthropic is they didn't see a need for more Rust expertise...? [1] https://www.levels.fyi/companies/anthropic/salaries/software-engineer?country=254 https://www.levels.fyi/companies/anthropic/salaries/software... [2] https://github.com/pentamassiv https://github.com/pentamassiv [3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/robingrell/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/robingrell/
mstaoru 1y ago
> what exactly are their tools for? Obviously, for writing and sending said job applications.
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