Software Engineer In Machine Learning Interview Experience - Mountain View, California
Process
Phone interview: 1 coding question followed by 1 machine learning-related question.
The interviewer started with a self-introduction and asked me some behavioral questions about my daily routine and why I was interested in working at LinkedIn.
Then, we started the coding question using Skype pad for about 20 minutes. After I finished it, the interviewer asked me to perform some unit tests to cover each edge case.
Next, we moved on to the machine learning-related questions for about 20 minutes.
Questions
Machine learning related question:
The company currently has:
- User profiles
- A list of jobs each user applied to
- Job profiles
Question: How to build a job recommendation system using this information?
Coding question:
Given a 2D grid map of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number of islands. An island is surrounded by water and is formed by connecting adjacent lands horizontally or vertically. You may assume all four edges of the grid are all surrounded by water.
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