Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience - Washington, District of Columbia
Process
A recruiter reaches out to you via email saying they are interested and gives you a deep learning project. The goal of the project was to detect the orientation of stars in images. So say you take an image with your phone of the night sky. Connect 5 random stars to make a giant star. Now the next task is to calculate the orientation of the star. You had to complete this within two weeks. There were two options: one was a computer vision project and the other was an NLP project. Both came with their own datasets and skeleton of the project. PyTorch and Python should be fully understood.
Questions
Complete assignment within 14 days, or you can ask for more time.
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