ML Engineering Manager Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California
Process
Applied via referral.
Quick recruiter screen – mostly background, team size, ML systems, and leadership scope. Followed by a prep call outlining the process.
First real round was with an EM – a mix of people leadership (managing ICs, handling low performance, 1:1s) and light system design (mine was on scaling recsys infra).
Onsite had 5 rounds:
- 2 coding (LC-style, focus on clean code and tradeoffs)
- 1 ML system design (real-world scale problem, end-to-end thinking)
- 1 project retrospective (how you led, staffed, scaled)
- 1 culture-fit (LPs, feedback, conflict handling)
Prepped with LC, ML systems, and a couple Prepfully mocks – super useful for retros and design rounds. Got the offer.
Would say: focus on showing balanced depth across tech, leadership, and execution.
Questions
Experience with model selection, training, evaluation, and tuning.
How do you handle overfitting and underfitting?
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