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That 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,
by lovich 9mo ago
That 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.
- entrox 9mo agoBut now the meaning is different: you went from a potential interview to a guaranteed one.
- lovich 9mo agoNo fucking shit, I paraphrased Anthropic's comments as > do better than we have publicly admitted most of humanity can do, and we may deign to interview you If you think telling someone that after passing a test that 99.999% of humanity cannot pass, that they _may_ get an interview, you are being snarky/condescending.
- retsibsi 9mo agoThat's not how paraphrasing works. They probably intentionally held back from guaranteeing an interview, for various reasons. One that seems obvious to me is that with the bar set at "Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch", it's plausible that someone could meet it by feeding the problem into an LLM. If a bunch of people do that, they won't want to waste time interviewing them all.
- Nevermark 9mo agoOr honest? You may want to consider the distribution and quantity of replies before stating that you WILL do something that might just waste more people’s time or not be practical. The classy thing to do would be responding to every qualifying submission, even if it’s just to thank everyone and let some people know the field was very competitive if an interview won’t be happening.