Hugging Face Machine Learning Engineer interview questions
Updated 21 Sept 2025
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Machine Learning Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Hugging Face with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 33.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Machine Learning Engineer roles take an average of 44 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Hugging Face overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Hugging Face as a Machine Learning Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 33%
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General interview, then home task related to job which tested creativity and basic ML. Took a really long time to hear back after home task due to company being slow. Rejcted with not much info
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Hugging Face (Paris) in Jan 2024
Interview
After a long long time, I was requested to record videos talking describing my vision, my ideas and ambitions about improving transformers. One of the pivotal questions posed during the interview was:
"What innovative approaches do you envision for enhancing transformer efficiency and performance?"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What innovative approaches do you envision for enhancing transformer efficiency and performance?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Hugging Face in Feb 2024
Interview
Met head of talent who had a chat about my past experience, but decided himself that I didn't seem to genuinely be enthusiastic about the job. Interview still lasted for 45 minutes even though in hindsight it should've been cut short.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain your past work and how it relates to the job description,