Hi folks, Wanted to share my interview experience at LinkedIn for applied research engineer role. Take home assignment - need to submit a solution to one of the five ML/DL problems. Based on my submission, they decided to skip the phone screening and moved me to onsites. Round 1 - Algo and DS. Basically Leetcode type of questions and the difficulty level is medium. Two problems in one hour. Round 2- ML system design. Very muted interviewer. Wouldn't respond to questions from my side. I tried driving this round but I couldn't since I lost track of what the interviewer was looking for. He also seemed busy. Anyway, this wasn't a good round from my perspective. I need to improve. Round 3 - Hiring manager. Semi technical round and he was a very friendly and amicable person. He asked about a use case at LinkedIn and I was able to frame it as a ML problem and drove the discussion. Round 4- Data coding round. Again coding but the problems have a different flavour. We are expected to have a keen eye for the given input and then use it to develop our solution. So it's all about the input pattern here. Once we come up with the observation, this is easy. 2 questions in one hour. Here I answered the first and I was about answer the 2nd. Unfortunately the internet snapped and I couldn't complete. Round 5 - ML basics. One problem on probability and one algorithm explanation starting from framing the problem, metric, loss function etc. Feedback- Reject due to inexperience at the design level. I also interviewed at Nvidia for a Deep Learning role and the less said about it, the better. Total if 7 rounds but the HR wouldn't give any details. Everytime they would only say it will be on programming, C++, Deep learning . And every interviewer would have questions on the features of C++ and they never asked me to solve any algorithmic question. Heck, one of the interviewer asked me some physics questions too!! Anyway, if you are interviewing with Nvidia, make sure you insist on getting some details. Best wishes.
Sorry about the experience you had with Nvidia It was an unfortunate case of a miscommunication between recruiter and HM. If you know the HM, you should definitely reach out if you want to give it another shot Bunch of interesting things coming up here (and in India too) wrt nlp and av, with the new chip coming out (Orin) that's being sold/advertised specifically for self driving cars
Thanks a lot for your comment. I am sure Nvidia does great work. After all they are at the core of the deep learning revolution :-). But, I am starting a new position from Monday and hence dont have the time for it. Best wishes.
Awesome; congrats on the new job and all the best!
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You sound like an intelligent and introspective candidate. Hope you give us another shot in the future.
Thank you for your kind words. I hope to at some point in the future. All the best.