Manager, Machine Learning Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
Two rounds of technical interviews on ML concepts.
The interviewers appeared very junior, despite claiming to have 7+ years of experience in ML.
Basic concepts such as Transformer and weight decay in the ADAM optimizer were new to the interviewer.
The interviewers were also not very familiar with the overall architecture of the recommendation system at the company.
Questions
What is Layer Norm vs. Batch Norm?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Snap Manager, Machine Learning role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Snap's interview process for their Manager, Machine Learning roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Snap's Manager, Machine Learning interview process in San Francisco, California.
Snap Work Experiences
- 4.0Good Pay, Poor ManagementManager, Machine Learning • Former EmployeeSanta Monica, California, United StatesDecember 16, 2023Pros: High salary, good work-life balance.Cons: Management is not very competent.
- 2.0Chasing Growth, Broken CodeSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025Pros: The paycheck, but it doesn't last. Every earnings, it drops significantly with no path to recovery. The money on paper is good, but you need to do your own due diligence.Cons: The company has zero direction, seems to have over-promised to investors in the past, and is forever chasing growth that will never exist. The codebase is poorly managed, and patches are everywhere. Constant direction changes are exhausting, and many people cope with "it's like that everywhere." I am from Meta monetization and have never seen this level of nonsense anywhere. What a bad place to work.
- 5.0Great Experience with StaffSoftware Development Engineer (SDE) • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesApril 28, 2025Pros: Really good pay for even the interns.Cons: Work hours can be shorter, I guess.
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