Weird Reddit interview Rejection
I got a rejection email from Reddit after two screening interviews for a ML engineering manager role. The interviews were around some coding + ML infra + ML science questions. I thought I did decently fine even though my coding could have been bit better with syntax. I was rusty with python and the interviewer wanted code only in python. Other than that the interview did not seem anything unusual with lot of ML related questions. I got rejection saying your background is not suitable. The director expressed lot of interest in hiring. No idea what’s up there. The recruiter just sent a regular email. She would not hop on phone call for even few mints
? Sounds like you bombed the coding portion and the recruiter sent you a completely standard rejection email.
Did you talk about social justice enough? Make sure to tell how much you care about Martin Luther King Jr. day.
Sorry to hear. With so many good candidates these days companies can reject even for small things. :/ I’ve DM’d you also to chat more.
Reddit interviews are BS. I interviewed a while back and during the systems design round the interviewer asked me not to diagram out my solution but rather just talk him through my thoughts. At first I objected but he insisted. As I’m walking through my systems design he would then ask the same question multiple times like ‘how are we going to handle doing x to the data before it hits y service’ and then I’d have to remind him of the previous piece of the system that I already explained. I begged him to let me draw it out for him so he could follow the steps I’ve already addressed but in the end he said no. Then by the end of the interview he told me he didn’t understand my design. Probably the dumbest interview I’ve ever experienced.
Maybe he wanted to see if you can communicate without the whiteboard
@Meta perhaps. I think I communicated well but who knows. He kept asking questions to problems I already solved earlier in the design. It just seemed like a lazy interviewer.
I have had rejection from the interviews that I thought I nailed them, it’s what it is, it’s a very subjective process and don’t take it as a reflection of your talent, it doesn’t reflect on how a company operates, more like just the interviewer.
At least recruiter should give very high level feedback
It’s a shitshow there I’ve heard, ton of archaic processes and tech debt.
Heard the same from anyone working there. Lots of questionable decision making internally and a lack of talent in key areas.
There is like 900 engineers there and you claim to know a few lol and also you in touch with them, lol. You just reading blind posts or you got rejected, either of you two!