I have interviewed at almost all the companies I wanted to interview and failed all of them. Now the cooldown period for most of them is getting over so this time I want to clear at least one of them. AMA except list of questions that I was asked. I am an ML engineer and I Interviewed at OpenAI DeepMind Waymo Tesla Apple Meta Apple SPG Roblox Zoox Nvidia Cruise Want to interview at Adobe and Google. I am pretty good at ML (strong yes in ML rounds from DeepMind and Cruise) but I am ok at Leetcode and between ok and bad at ML system design (read on for what that means). Not many companies provided me with feedback but some feedback has pointed out that I need to express myself more in coding. I know I need to write a cleaner code and not just write a workjng and tested code. For ML system design, what kind of resources would you suggest? I don’t think a book like designing data intensive applications will help because I don’t get asked to design Instagram. I would rather get asked how to detect spam on instagram. However, I still think they expect some knowledge on how would I scale techniques to 100M users and more. Would websites like interviewing.io help? I am interviewing for L5. TC: $350k #career #interviews #tech
interview.io is so expensive!! even with $200 discount, you're roughly paying $500 for per session. I don't earn that much to be doing that though :(
I offer 1 hr recorded mock interviews for $300 with my colleagues for BE, FE, and PM. Feel free to DM me if you want details (ex-Microsoft, Zillow, Coinbase).
what is the cooldown period for all these companies? 6 months or a year?
some dude from Goldman Sachs said 6 months But if for google, it depends on how you performed in the interviews
All top companies like OpenAI, Deepmind, a year. Meta a year. Others six months, some with no cooldown period.
OP was ML Coding at meta just regular LC or ML specific? Ditto ML SD at Meta. Was it regular SD or ML Specific?
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If you've been able to land that many interviews then you probably don't need resume help. It's more likely you need some coaching on tactics. How quiet are you in interviews? You should be talking, a lot. Thinking out loud. If you're looking for more active 1:1 help feel free to DM.
Yeah, resume is most likely not a problem. I should mention that these are all top tier teams I applied for so even though it looks bad, I think I can crack into a tier 1.5 company and tier 2 for sure. I am not quiet but I am not sure how to keep talking and thinking at the same time. Is it not acceptable to stay quiet and then say what your approach is? I think when I try to think out loud, I sometimes end up saying stupid things and then I regret.
When someone asks a coding question, what's your game plan?