Machine learning engineer interview

Jun 10, 2020 7 Comments

Asking for a friend (4 YOE as a SWE, 140K TC):
He's interviewing for a machine learning engineer position for the first time (all his other interviews are standard SWE). He did an ML track on his CS MS degree, but has little to no industry experience in production MLE. It is pretty much his dream to get an MLE position so he would really like to succeed. The team works on recommendation-system-type products.

Anyone has some insight as to what to expect in an ML interview - would it likely be just standard LC as for SWE, or would there be ML questions exclusively/in addition? Also if anyone has tips, suggestions, or resources on how to study for an ML interview, that would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Cerner / Eng
    bokatoda

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    bokatoda
    I can answer this. Unfortunately, MLE interviews are mostly like SWE interviews these days. I had an MLE interview with a team in Apple, only their process was ML based and also had a presentation round. For most other places, although they do ask some basic ML questions and ocassionally ML system design, still it's heavily focused on Leetcode. So yeah, if someone with very little ML background can get past the resume screening, honestly the current interview system for MLEs would mean they can get the actual job if they are good at LC and grokking the system design. For the ML system design round, prepare by reading some blogs(Uber AI blogs are good in this regard) and papers(ask your friend to thoroughly read the YouTube recommendation paper as it's relevant to the company) and learn the scalability aspect properly. Also, have the basics, just thoroughly knowing the materials of the Andrew ng courses should be enough. But, again ML is not the hardest part of ML interviews, it's Leetcode, it will follow you even if you are in your grave lol.
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