Senior ML Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom
Process
The driest interview I have ever given in my whole life, and I have given one too many for my age, so trust me when I say this: you do not want a piece of this.
- HR Round
- Screening Technical Round - LeetCode + ML
Rejection, so unsure what comes after it.
Questions
The interview started with an introduction that lasted less than a minute. Straight away, the interviewer shared a link where we went to solve a "Hard Problem" – Edit Distance – with little to no interaction.
Afterwards, there was a bit of baiting. I was asked to "tell me which Classic ML model you like and explain that model." Once I explained that it would be the Decision Tree family, the interviewer started asking about the "loss" function and other questions that felt like purely adversarial attacks. This is fair in the context, but after having created a suboptimal pseudocode for Edit Distance for the last 30 minutes, it was doomed to fail, at least for me.
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Yandex's interview process for their Senior ML Engineer roles in London, the United Kingdom is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Yandex's Senior ML Engineer interview process in London, United Kingdom.
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