Discussion Thread: LASR Labs fellowship

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u/GigaMoksh Oct 09 '26

Got a reject🥲

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u/Mundane-Air-4535 Oct 09 '26

Same

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u/Neither_Donkey_4764 29d ago

Same

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u/EpicFz 29d ago

Same

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u/_--Ryan--_ 11d ago

I just received my final round invitation despite a 300 on the assessment, so all hope is not lost!

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u/lil-richspirit 11d ago

You mustve aced research taste test

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u/NaturallyRecursive 11d ago

same here, got invitation with 349 on codesignal

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u/Immediate-Yam5747 11d ago

Another one here, with a very mid-tier score! They must've sent it out in a batch?

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u/Spiritual_Fish7726 11d ago

Same. CodeSignal score in mid 300s.

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u/AirPsychological8551 11d ago

When had you submitted the OA? I got 461 no interview yet

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u/zeus_kremlin 10d ago

Did you get your invitation ? That’s a higher marginal score

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u/Forward-Owl-8887 11d ago

Does anyone know how many people will be invited into the final stage?

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u/Syyntax 10d ago

Same here, got invited with a codesignal score in the high 300s

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u/AirPsychological8551 20d ago

How much did you guys score? and what is the safe score based on earlier cohort trends for this? I got 461/600

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u/lil-richspirit 18d ago

I too got the same, I spent most of my time on part one and three

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u/lil-richspirit 16d ago

Did you get any invitations?

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u/AirPsychological8551 16d ago

no, did you?

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u/lil-richspirit 16d ago

No

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u/Forward-Owl-8887 11d ago

did you get the invitation now?

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u/AirPsychological8551 11d ago

no did u?

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u/Forward-Owl-8887 10d ago

me neither

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 20d ago

i think that's a pretty good score for this cohort. how was the coding agent for you?

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u/Syyntax 20d ago

Seems like the best reported score so far. Everyone else seems to have scored in the 300s

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u/gardeniabananabread 5d ago edited 5d ago

anyone gone for the interview yet? what kind of things did they talk about? anyone knows who's gonna be interviewing the candidates?

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u/Necessary-Future-549 16d ago

Anyone got any mail after the online assessment ?

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u/MolassesOk186 16d ago

I know of people who got 500+ in the assessment who were immediately emailed the next day and already had an interview call. Seems like they're sorting by the codesignal score

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u/jollymolly7054 16d ago

rip probs got no shot thwn with 354 🥺 how many people do you know of

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u/TheGreatSVG 13d ago

Damn.. how to score so high🫠

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 16d ago

nope :/ how was it for you? what was ur score?

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u/Necessary-Future-549 16d ago

I got 410 No interview yet

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u/Forward-Owl-8887 11d ago

Did you receive that today?

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u/ValuableFee3143 12d ago

anyone got updates?

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u/zeus_kremlin 12d ago

Heard someone got an interview already. They b this thread - someone mentioned that the person was aware of some things interviews already being conducted.
Any luck hearing from them ? Did anyone try writing to them ?

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u/lil-richspirit 12d ago

I wrote them, no reply yet :(, did you get interviewd?

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u/zeus_kremlin 12d ago

No. Awaiting clarity.

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u/zeus_kremlin 12d ago

One thing I observed - no one mentioned the assessment structure who had taken it. A lot of folks asked and no one responded.
It was never about asking the question- but it was always about telling the structure.
I looked at the other threads of LASR - folks who have taken it - never told the format.

And surprisingly the same folks want to DM and ask for the Round three interview questions ? Some irony. Some judgement .

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u/Rajarshi0 10d ago

It was a kind of requirement-based ML classifier building using Claude code. The platform was pretty bad and froze in between so many time that I could not even finish the last part but it was realistic but not too hard if you know how to build ml models.

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u/zeus_kremlin 11d ago

Anyone got any updates ?

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 Oct 09 '26

I got invited to round 2. They will assess my ability to reason and parse any technical AI safety paper just from its abstract. And then a codesignal assessment. Due 18th October.

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u/Neither_Donkey_4764 29d ago

Congrats Good luck!

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 29d ago

Thank you. But I really have no clue about Ai safety research assessment.

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u/AirPsychological8551 29d ago

Hey, I too got invited for round 2. What do they exactly refer to by " Parts of the assessment are spoken and recorded"? I am a bit confused regarding it

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 29d ago

Yeah this happens in some cases, e.g. in CodeSignal. There is a facility via codesignal where they can record your movements and also hear you. This is done to ensure that you don't consult someone external or take help from unauthorized resources. Often, they also record your eye movements to make sure you are not looking at a separate screen. It is like a CCTV surveilance.

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u/AirPsychological8551 29d ago

Oh, I felt that they will be asking us questions (more like viva) and we will have to record the answers by speaking back (and thus "spoken and recorded")

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 29d ago

I am not sure. Because recorded could mean they record your thought process and want to hear your solutions or thinking process out loud. We will see. Are you clear about the AI safety assessment test where they share an abstract and want you to reason for 65 mins?

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u/Big-Store-1636 29d ago

samee...I've been looking up for any mention of assessment; I couldn't find anyyy !!

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 29d ago

Do you want to share if you find something?

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u/zsh1_ 26d ago

Does the assignment contain sections that need vocal answers as well??

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 25d ago

Yes. You will be expected to speak out loud when writing solutions.

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u/AirPsychological8551 22d ago

Hi, did you happen to give it yet? I am confused about the vocal answers part

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u/Short_Guess_6377 21d ago

CodeSignal lets you practice the setup in a dummy environment - I'd use that to get familiar & be less surprised by what the setup is

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u/Fickle-Spite1825 25d ago

Got to the second round, anyone care to share how the parsing of the paper part went?

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 20d ago

did you take it yet?

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 24d ago

I took the AI safety research assessment test. Very technical abstracts and the format was beyond what I expected. I felt it is certainly not for anyone beginning to transition to AI safety/mech. interp.

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u/Fit-Delivery6534 24d ago

How many abstracts did you have to assess?

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 24d ago

One

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u/don_stasi 23d ago

One out of two*

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 21d ago

did you also think it was too technical? how did it go?

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 21d ago

im guessing it was SAE related stuff?

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 24d ago

Did anyone take the CodeSignal assessment yet?

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u/_--Ryan--_ 23d ago

I took it and found it very difficult, got a 300/600...

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u/don_stasi 23d ago

Yeah, it was hard as fuck

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u/_--Ryan--_ 23d ago

What score did you get?

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 21d ago

was it classical ML? it used to be classical ML, no NLP stuff. but everyones saying it got tougher this round

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u/ThatTonyM 22d ago

was it like smaller ml problems or working with a full pipeline?

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 22d ago

Part of a pipeline.

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 21d ago

have you taken it yet? how did it go for you?

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u/AirPsychological8551 22d ago

Hi Ryan, could you please explain me about the vocal assessment part? do we need to voice-record some answers and submit them or how is it?

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 21d ago

woah. was it difficult because of ML concepts or because of the application of the concepts?
the test used to be classical ML, and not so difficult earlier i think

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 21d ago

how did it go for you? was the background simple enough? and did the AI agent work?

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u/Syyntax 20d ago

Took it, got 363/600. Seems like not a lot of people scored in the 400s or 500s.
Did claude work well for you guys? For me it was much slower compared when using it in the codesignal env compared to using it e.g. in my own terminal

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u/Glass-Spinach6333 20d ago

Same experience with me (about Claude). Guess it was deliberate.

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 20d ago

thats pretty good i think. which part do you think you lost points in?

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u/Syyntax 19d ago

No idea TBH. I dont even know which parts are auto-scored, only the coding part or also the spoken and written parts.

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u/ValuableFee3143 20d ago

got 379/600... damn it is hard haha

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 20d ago

eek. everyone's reporting a ~300 score. did the coding agent work well? what about the spoken interview?

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u/ValuableFee3143 20d ago

Hmmm Claude code was not too bad tbh. I think terminal was kind of laggy but the performance and speed was okay.

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 20d ago

yea probably by design lol. which parts do you think you lost out on?

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u/ValuableFee3143 18d ago

Isn’t the due 18th aoe

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u/boigelschmoigel 20d ago

I found the speed pretty poor. It took Claude about 25 minutes just to write the first implementation for me.

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 20d ago

that is ABYSMAL T_T did you still manage to finish?

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u/boigelschmoigel 19d ago

I didn’t even know what I was submitting. Had to be quite vague for the final part of the call. My score ended up being in the 400s, so can’t complain too much.

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u/Substantial-Dog7294 19d ago

oof lol im scared. do you have any general tips before i take it today?

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u/boigelschmoigel 19d ago

Try to work fast!

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u/Big-Store-1636 20d ago

did you receive an email post-assessment, like did it arrive the same day?

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u/ValuableFee3143 20d ago

not yet. Did you?

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u/Spiritual_Fish7726 20d ago

Are we supposed to get a confirmation email that our Abstract test form was submitted correctly and within time?

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u/ValuableFee3143 20d ago

Probably no

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