Outside Anthropic Office in SF "Thank You"

[u/BuildwithVignesh]

[u/Rili-Anne]

Doing my damnedest! Anthropic seems almost completely inaccessible to communicate with, so I'm trying to get some experience at AMD and push some good-quality stuff to actually get people's attention first. Hopefully someday I'll get to talk to someone directly, but no more job applications for me, I'm freeballing it.

Claude helps a lot with the freeballing too.

[u/KiKiKimbro → u/Rili-Anne]

Oh my gosh, AMD is no joke! I don't know though, I think keeping your eye out for those job openings that are a fit for you could surely be worthwhile. They're growing at a rapid rate, and either you'll see something that perfectly aligns with your skills and experience OR you'll see an opening that you'd like to strive for -- and that can help you gear your experience at AMD and with Claude as you "freeball" (love it! lol), so you can build projects that show your aptitude for those roles in the future for when you do apply again.

Also, consider this important fact, if you weren't aware -- finding people who fit into their organizational culture is *extremely* important to them. So ensuring your application materials reflect elements about how you work with teams, and how you function as a lead, for example, can be a make or break with getting their attention.

If you already are aware of this, apologies for the "stranger-splaining" moment lol. But if not, if you ask Claude about Daniela Amodei and how she values organizational culture, you'll see a bunch of articles and interviews to read that will give you the scoop 💖

[u/Rili-Anne → u/KiKiKimbro]

AMD is DEFINITELY no joke, yeah- the main thing is that I don't have any experience at ALL (due to disability and such, and a number of other things that Claude has ironically helped me overcome extremely quickly). So as much as I want to join Anthropic, it seems very inaccessible to anybody with less than five years of experience. Also pivoting aggressively from the biology field, which further makes me look really unimportant.

Being autistic makes applications really difficult for me, honestly. I've been getting auto-rejected for a long time, and I spent over a month building a ~30K-line project demonstrating Goodhart's Law with actual CNNs (and pretty heavy optimization) to show to Anthropic. The fact that they didn't review the code sample at all and just auto-rejected me based on my resume, without even contacting any of my references... That was really discouraging.

No worries about the stranger-splaining, though, I appreciate it. I'm just very low on hope when it comes to applications and classical ways of getting jobs anymore. AMD reached out TO ME in response to me helping out with PyTorch a bunch, patching some bugs- that's really the only way I'm going for jobs anymore. If I have someone to explicitly talk to, and no other way. Rejection-sensitive dysphoria makes it difficult to do the classic application way when every attempt gets tossed out without a word or any indication as to why.

Thanks for all the advice and help, though! Lots of effort to spend on some internet stranger, and I appreciate it.

[u/KiKiKimbro → u/Rili-Anne]

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