I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks.

After the recruiter screening, I aced the coding round and entered API/Interface Design interview. But it deviated from the given interview guidelines, while the interviewer didn’t seem prepared at all.

• The interviewer changed from one meeting room to another and interrupted the video conference.
• The interviewer didn’t notice or utilize the HackerRank link in the scheduling email, leading to inconvenience in presentation.
• While the guidelines clearly listed API/Interface Design focuses for the senior MLOps engineer role, the interviewer wasn’t aware but asked for text search algorithms and parallel architecture.

The interviewer even prompted for no ML/AI/LLM use for the text search, but reusing the news deduplication logic from the prior coding round. Due to all the reasons, my strengths and skills were mis-evaluated and biased against the job requirements.

• How to ensure data consistency and synchronization during canary deployment between new and legacy systems?
• What's the difference between inverted-indexing and normal indexing?
• Design a news alerting system with no ML/AI/LLM use but reusing the news deduplication logic from the prior coding round.