As someone who has recently been in the AI Safety org interview circuit, about 50% of interviews were traditional Leetcode style algorithmic/coding puzzle and 50% were more practical. This seems pretty typical compared to industry.
The EA orgs I interviewed with were very candid about their approach, and I was much less surprised by the style of interview I got than I was surprised when interviewing in industry. Anthropic, Ought, and CEA all very explicitly lay out what their interviews look like publicly. My experience was that the interviews matched the public description very well.
As someone who has recently been in the AI Safety org interview circuit, about 50% of interviews were traditional Leetcode style algorithmic/coding puzzle and 50% were more practical. This seems pretty typical compared to industry.
The EA orgs I interviewed with were very candid about their approach, and I was much less surprised by the style of interview I got than I was surprised when interviewing in industry. Anthropic, Ought, and CEA all very explicitly lay out what their interviews look like publicly. My experience was that the interviews matched the public description very well.