I applied online. I interviewed at Anyscale (CA) in Dec 2023
Interview
recruiter called to ask about what other timelines and ability to relocate and other generic things. Basic leetcode easy or medium string problem coding question which heavily accented person on the phone. They think they are like big tech despite their product not bringing more than 10x performance increase while still using the slowest and most resource intense programming language Python
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Anyscale (CA) in May 2025
Interview
There were five rounds. Each was with the hiring team, except the System Design round, which was with the CTO. There were two DSA rounds, one System Design, one Debugging, and one Hiring Manager Interview. The difficulty was moderate and was very much in line with what was advertised.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design different components of the Anyscale platform.
Multiple rounds consisting of a leetcode style interview + discussing optimizations using Ray, an ML round, hiring manager chat, and a technical presentation. Interview process was smooth and the recruiters/interviewers were helpful throughout, but the process was quite lengthy
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find all nested hyperlinks given a starting web-page
It started with 1 general coding Interview with a junior engineer. After that, it was followed by four 1hr long virtual onsite interviews with senior engineers over 2 days. An interview with a leadership person is scheduled after that.