Cartesia interview questions

Four rounds. 1st round with recruiter, background checking. 2nd round is pytorch coding, modeling. 3rd round with hiring manager, go through a project accomplished by yourself. 4th round is a super round, 1 coding (leetcode), 1 knowledge deep dive (with CTO), 1 coding (pytorch), 1 research presentation.

Interviewed for a Forward Deployed Engineer role. The process covered a hiring manager conversation, a debugging round, and a DSA round. The hiring manager round was a genuine highlight — good back-and-forth and a real sense of fit with the team. The coding rounds were more demanding; the DSA portion included a trie implementation, and both the debugging and DSA rounds were on the tougher side. Overall a well-structured loop with a strong people component and a high technical bar.