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      Machine Learning Engineer Interview

      20 Dec 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Snowflake

      Interview

      Advice to the company: Actually design an ML interview if you're trying to hire top ML talent. Started with a 30 minute presentation about a past ML related project, in front of a panel. Almost everyone was late, and only one person introduced themselves. Nobody asked any questions at the end, so a manager (who joined halfway through) had to essentially put somebody on the spot to ask a random question. This was followed by more general coding questions and a behavioral interview. During the entire process, nobody asked me a single question related to Machine Learning/AI. Instead, it seems that (except for the hiring manager interview) I was simply thrown into a standard Software Engineering loop, with people from non-ML teams doing the coding/design interviews. The onsite included a "design" question that was not about designing ML applications (which is what the job is about), but constructing a vaguely defined "scheduler system". This question seems to just have come out of their general question-bank, and there was no understanding that this isn't a question that's super relevant to an ML engineer's work. I got a thumbs up from all interviews except this one, which is not surprising since I'm not a Software Engineer. Overall I'm pretty shocked that a company that's branding themselves as wanting to become a big player in AI does not have an interview loop that even acknowledges that building ML/AI applications requires a different skill set.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you design a system to: - schedule jobs - retry with exponential backoff No context or use case was given. Minimal help from the interviewer.
      Answer question
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