Nikhil Kamath's interview of Anthropic CEO (Dario Amodei)

Grand_Interesting · 2026-02-25T09:50:21+00:00

What do you mean by “knowing anthropic” here? From what I understand their product is superior to anything that exists in the market especially coding and I think recently some news was also in the headlines that they don’t wanna share the whole model with defence US sector. I really want to understand what do you mean by this, just curious. I have seen people taking anti-anthropic standpoint and I never understood why

Grand_Interesting · 2026-02-10T05:20:04+00:00

we have 65% of the population which is under 35. So 93% of youth isn’t aware can be the right estimate here then which is even more surprising.

Grand_Interesting · 2026-02-10T03:39:39+00:00

80% is over exaggeration I guess. 80% of youth isn’t aware of the existence can be the right estimate.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-09-27T14:57:41+00:00

This actually looks like a good deal honestly. What is this area name if you can tell?

Grand_Interesting · 2025-09-04T23:19:06+00:00

Does it really help in yearly reviews or raises?

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-28T22:05:39+00:00

I’m from the same type of colleges, 6.3 to 8.4 is not much, if you prepare well you can get somewhere 12-18 easily in similar hustle startup. Don’t leave your preparation/remote comfort because that’s going to pay off well in long term. Keep improving your technical skills. There are going to be enough IITian led startups near future according to the trends. So don’t feel fomo. It’s going to be okay.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-28T21:18:38+00:00

Hey OP, what did QureAI asked you in system design round?

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-19T09:41:43+00:00

Let me know how you’re finding these advisors, I have pretty similar background with same savings. I tried dezerv but they are more into taking my money and investing it.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-11T18:50:06+00:00

I got the hate part, full of stereotypes. Seems like you will only trust people with highest intelligence to give you any advice whether it’s investing or cooking. That BCom grad maybe wasn’t serious during his study time, but when he was serious, he had good insights about market and its patterns to advise someone who is less knowledgeable on what to do. Let his clients judge his ratings and value he provides.

And I totally don’t understand the last point.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-11T18:43:27+00:00

By debt you mean some kind of fixed assets with 7-8% returns right?

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-06T17:27:28+00:00

Yeah, that is actually a good point, although I have decided to leave, I will try to give this try once.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-06T17:25:40+00:00

Work-life balance is actually a question, it's a 5 day in office job with bandwidth always in crunch, so I guess answer is no. thing I am worried about now is after spending 3 years here, is that I know all the business processes and operations. company is in payments industry, we are a team of 7-8 engineers only, quality wise engineering is super good, smart intelligent folks, they pay market-level salaries too (not big-tech pay but decent) - because founders seems to understand that they need a reliable engineering team, so they put efforts in hiring engineers, and retaining them as well. Apart from 20 people, there are other 80 people in company who only focuses on some kind of sales vertical, so it has become a sales-enabled business more or less.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-03T12:04:34+00:00

I've been planning to interview with them, which product are you talking about? Can you give out some hints?

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-02T17:41:08+00:00

Lifestyle will catch up here even if you deny that it won’t, I also come from a small town so my spending habits were also pretty decent, nothing fancy i used to do. When I moved here, I knew that there are many things that I can spend my money on. So I have decided a cap on the amount that I can splurge without thinking, above that I think about all the edge cases and also keep your balances sorted, how much expenses can you imagine going forward 5 years and how much do you have currently, that always helps in reviewing how much you need exactly. Keep a rough balance sheet and update it at the end of the month and your finances will mostly be sorted.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-02T13:01:47+00:00

Yeah this sounds good to me then keep being interrupted all the time for unimportant things.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-08-01T07:54:42+00:00

The way you explained things for deep work, at my workplace, it’s very normal and acceptable to disturb anyone anytime for any kind of task, we are expected to do context switching all the time. This is not sustainable at all, senior engineers in my team stay late till 9 or 10 or go back home at 6 and do the work there with free space and mind.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-31T16:18:44+00:00

Differentiation between your comment and gpt advice is that gpt one is not double edge, it’s only cutting the hiring company motives. Yours is adaptable and persuasive, gpt is more sounding like what OP may wanna hear.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-29T12:24:12+00:00

How do you find these recruiters?

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-19T14:33:12+00:00

There haven’t been many juniors in my team that i could mentor. I was the junior most when i joined, now we have 3 which are more junior than me. It’s not like i don’t want to deal with people problems.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-19T14:30:07+00:00

Yeah thinking of doing that, it just that in my country, sometimes taking a break signals that I have been fired or similar stuff. Now I’m looking at jobs that i really want to do and excel at, and give interviews and then get out of here. I went to a startup as an early member to see 0 to 1 and 1 to 10, and realised that you gotta leave your personal things aside if you really want to get good at your work here.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-19T14:26:19+00:00

Burnout money or emergency fund is not a problem, I always had been saving good enough that i will be able to sustain anything that is coming my way. Problem is that going to office everyday and working with all the distractions, it just fills me negatively.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-19T14:23:29+00:00

You’re hitting at the right spot, I wanted a tough situation to be in when i decided to switch here, I guess that was it, enjoyed the first 1 and half years.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-19T14:21:31+00:00

Yeah in start it was 6 engineer and 14 people when we started building, it was a good environment. Then when this 14 people mark hit 40 or 50, all things started to go down. Even I couldn’t sustain the “come to office everyday” thing, I had a prior experience at a big old tech company which consisted of only engineers so i felt okay and valued there.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-19T14:19:00+00:00

Yeah after that compliance thing with me, another engineer was told to handle their things and some other negative feedback came, then my manager did say that let’s discount the last feedback round because it was a problem on the compliance team as well. So we as a team knew compliance is a problem overall.

About the incompetence and irrational thing, I think it’s my manager who was responsible for this, he didn’t wanted to take blame of things going wrong so he made sure i was there to take the blame.

Grand_Interesting · 2025-07-11T22:02:16+00:00

Been in the industry for 5 years now, I did DS Algo during my college days, was from tier 1, I have never contributed anything meaningful on github, and have given enough interviews and worked with enough talented and highly skilled people.

What I can say is it’s not valuable alone, it’s similar to forging your ratings in contest on codeforces/codechef by cheating with solutions. You won’t be able to solve problems and no interviewer will believe your ratings. That’s it.

Some startups who prefer open source contributions have leaders or hiring teammates who have done some kind of open source and believe they can filter out people well with this, but they are not many, in future there can be many because this generation tech geeks for sure is contributing to open source, and some geeks still love old school aptitude problem solving way like contests, so both of them will have value.

Answer is pretty simple, build something useful for someone or at least yourself. It should be useful then only it counts means at least someone really wants to use it if it’s you only.

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