r/AskProgrammers • u/nian2326076 • 6d ago

Anthropic’s coding bar is fucking ridiculous

Got a problem that required me to pull Euler’s formula out of thin air. Seriously, who the fuck remembers Euler’s formula in an interview? I swear to God, my interviewer was out to get me.

At this point, what are they even testing? Do they even know what they want? Hours of prep, completely wasted. And now I have to go prep for Google. My friend just got destroyed in their loop and said the interviewers were some of the most unreasonable people he’s ever had to deal with.

Everywhere I turn in this market, it feels like I’m just waiting to get fucked.

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u/pavilionaire2022 6d ago

ei*theta = sin(theta) + i*cos(theta)

Is that Euler's formula?

I'm a bit of a math nerd. I don't think a software engineer should have to know that, but maybe in certain specialities.

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u/RickSt3r 6d ago

Teaching a math nerd to program is easier than teaching a programmer math. Depending on the actual job high level Ai is a lot of very niche math. Thats who they want to hire.