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The snarky writing of "if you beat our best solution, send us an email and MAYBE we think about interviewing you" is really something, innit?
by tucnak 9mo ago
The snarky writing of "if you beat our best solution, send us an email and MAYBE we think about interviewing you" is really something, innit?
- sourcegrift 9mo agoPride comes before fall thankfully
- altmanaltman 9mo agoits anthrophic. their entire marketing is just being an pompous ass and AI fear mongering.
- ahussain 9mo agoThey wrote: > If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at performance-recruiting@anthropic.com with your code (and ideally a resume) so we can be appropriately impressed and perhaps discuss interviewing. That doesn’t seem snarky to me. They said if you beat Opus, not their best solution. Removing “perhaps” (i.e. MAYBE) would be worse since that assumes everyone wants to interview at Anthropic. I guess they could have been friendlier: “if you beat X, we’d love to chat!”
- 0x3f 9mo agoI suppose you could interpret it either way, but having dealt with their interview pipeline I'd choose the snark.
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- dude250711 9mo agoYeah, a nerd bypassed HR and showed their true character. They are swimming in easy money.
- lovich 9mo agoThat paraphrases to "do better than we have publicly admitted most of humanity can do, and we may deign to interview you" It sounds incredibly condescending, if not snarky, but I would classify those adjectives as mostly synonymous.
- throwaway743 9mo agoI took the "perhaps" as a decision to be considered by the applicant, considering they'd be competent enough to get in at a place of their choice, not just anthropic.
- lovich 9mo agoDoes the applicant or the employer decide if an interview happens in your experience? Do you think if the applicants are really in that level of demand that they would be getting a take home test instead of being actively recruited? Legitimately lay out your understanding of a world where an employer is chasing after employees who are high in demand, give them a test that is expected to take hours, and have a hedged bet in their wording, instead of saying we will absolutely hire you if you pass X bar?
- miki123211 9mo agoI suspect this is partially legal CYA. There's more to employees than their raw ability to go below some performance threshold. If somebody passes the test, but lives in an US sanctioned country with no plans to move, is well known for using the n-word on social media or has previously broken an NDA, Anthropic probably doesn't want to interview them.
- andruby 9mo agoI understand how it can be interpreted as snarky, but how could it have been written better? It's a hard path to walk and recruiting/interviewing is inherently sensitive it seems.
- lovich 9mo agoThe original >If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at performance-recruiting@anthropic.com with your code (and ideally a resume) so we can be appropriately impressed and perhaps discuss interviewing. Not condescending > If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at performance-recruiting@anthropic.com with your code so we can schedule an interview.
- kristopolous 9mo agoIf you're an asshole that wants millions of dollars...i mean there's still places to say no
- riffraff 9mo agoI feel that came out wrong but the "maybe" was intended to be a way of saying "no guarantees", to avoid giving people the idea "solve this, get hired".
- Bootvis 9mo agoShould have asked Claude how to write it better.
- maerch 9mo agoIn that case, removing „perhaps“ would have helped a lot. It is not about maybe being hired, but about maybe being interviewed.
- dmurray 9mo agoThey don't want to guarantee an interview to everyone who sends them an improved solution, either. If three people send them improvements, they'll probably get interviews. If three thousand do, the problem is easier than they thought or amenable to an LLM or one bright person figured out a trick and shared it with all his classmates or colleagues or all of GitHub.
- NewJazz 9mo agoThey may not be able to hire folks in certain jurisdictions. Or even interview them. (Iran, NK)