As Reddit says on its website, it's home to "authentic human connection." Unfortunately, this was pretty much the opposite of what I saw during the interview process.

It all started with a recruiter contacting me and scheduling a quick screening call. That went fine, so a technical screen was arranged.

The interviewer didn't seem very interested or engaged, but that's common, so I won't complain. It was a coding exercise, for which the common wisdom tells you to "explain your thought process in detail, don't jump to coding straight away, ask questions." When I tried to do exactly that, the interviewer basically told me to keep quiet, write my code, and notify him when I was done. That, combined with overall unfriendliness and some multitasking on his part, created a rather bad impression.

It all went downhill from there. At some stage, the recruiter told me that due to an internal issue, they had never received feedback for my interview. However, in the meantime, they had hired another candidate for the position. So, it seems I didn't fail the screening, but I was abandoned nevertheless.

Overall, my experience is probably an outlier, and I'm sure Reddit is a much nicer place than it appeared to me.

A simple ML problem: write some code to get end-to-end from feature extraction to evaluation.