Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience - Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts
January 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer
Process
The top management has no proper background in ML but thinks it is doing ML. They are a data science shop with no publication or patent history. They ask questions on regression, which is fine, but reject candidates if they have forgotten about L1/L2 optimizations. Even principal scientists who are well-known in the industry get rejected because of this.
I wouldn’t have joined anyway, as that would degrade my resume and also end up working with incompetent people with no strong theoretical or production backgrounds in real ML.
Questions
Regression explained with different problems.
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Tripadvisor's interview process for their Machine Learning Engineer roles in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Tripadvisor's Machine Learning Engineer interview process in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.
Tripadvisor Work Experiences
1.0
Layoffs without severance
Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee
November 5, 2025
Pros: None. Join if you want to lose your job without notice.
Incompetent leadership.
Your system access will be taken without notice.
Cons: Repeated surprise layoffs without severance.
Incompetent leadership.
5.0
Great Intern Experience
Software Development Engineer • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
August 5, 2019
Pros: Fantastic team and mentorship. Great office location in Palo Alto.
Cons: The office catering could have been better, but it was not HQ.
2.0
'Speed wins' does not guarantee you success in the long term
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
November 14, 2019
Pros: - Good benefits.
- There was one time when the company was well known for traveling. But now, any hotel/restaurant I talked to, all over Europe or anywhere in the world, everybody hates the company.
Cons: Since the company started booking on their website without any advertisement or marketing, it has gone down really low. They started charging for everything on hotels and restaurants, which they were not charging for before. As a result, people started hating the company and moved to different booking sites.
* Very high expectations for each employee. The reason is above. You will be given four days' work to finish in two days without consideration for any meetings, reporting, or monitoring tasks. So, you end up working during nights and weekends. And there is no appreciation for it, as it is expected from you.
* No work-life balance. You work Dublin hours but might also need to end up working US hours too. The engineering team in Dublin reduced from 35 to 8-10 in number. Now you can imagine why.
* Poor management in Dublin and especially in the US. The management from the US puts blame on you for even small things in front of the whole team in a meeting, and your manager from Dublin will remain quiet and not even represent you.
* No appreciation of hard work. No matter how hard you work, they say, "This is expected from you."
* Every Friday, a manager has a meeting to talk about your weekly performance, which is like torture no matter how hard you work. It ruins your weekend. Though you end up working on the weekend to mitigate that.
* There is just one person in the name of Human Resource management, who will only listen to you and ignore. No action is taken, no matter how much you try to explain. The end reason people leave.
* Last but not least, speed does not always win if you want to run your business for the long term.
- 1.0Layoffs without severanceMachine Learning Engineer • Current EmployeeNovember 5, 2025Pros: None. Join if you want to lose your job without notice. Incompetent leadership. Your system access will be taken without notice.Cons: Repeated surprise layoffs without severance. Incompetent leadership.
- 5.0Great Intern ExperienceSoftware Development Engineer • Former EmployeePalo Alto, California, United StatesAugust 5, 2019Pros: Fantastic team and mentorship. Great office location in Palo Alto.Cons: The office catering could have been better, but it was not HQ.
- 2.0'Speed wins' does not guarantee you success in the long termSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeDublin, Leinster, IrelandNovember 14, 2019Pros: - Good benefits. - There was one time when the company was well known for traveling. But now, any hotel/restaurant I talked to, all over Europe or anywhere in the world, everybody hates the company.Cons: Since the company started booking on their website without any advertisement or marketing, it has gone down really low. They started charging for everything on hotels and restaurants, which they were not charging for before. As a result, people started hating the company and moved to different booking sites. * Very high expectations for each employee. The reason is above. You will be given four days' work to finish in two days without consideration for any meetings, reporting, or monitoring tasks. So, you end up working during nights and weekends. And there is no appreciation for it, as it is expected from you. * No work-life balance. You work Dublin hours but might also need to end up working US hours too. The engineering team in Dublin reduced from 35 to 8-10 in number. Now you can imagine why. * Poor management in Dublin and especially in the US. The management from the US puts blame on you for even small things in front of the whole team in a meeting, and your manager from Dublin will remain quiet and not even represent you. * No appreciation of hard work. No matter how hard you work, they say, "This is expected from you." * Every Friday, a manager has a meeting to talk about your weekly performance, which is like torture no matter how hard you work. It ruins your weekend. Though you end up working on the weekend to mitigate that. * There is just one person in the name of Human Resource management, who will only listen to you and ignore. No action is taken, no matter how much you try to explain. The end reason people leave. * Last but not least, speed does not always win if you want to run your business for the long term.
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