Hello, Feeling bored this Saturday morning. So, I decided to do an AMA if anyone finds it useful. In the last 1 year, I got MLE offers from Pinterest L4 - $305 TC + 50 sign on Snap L4 - $390 TC + 20 sign on FB E5 - $415 TC + 100 sign on Roblox IC3 - $420 TC + 30 sign on Roku - $425 TC + 0 sign on Stripe L3 - $525 TC + 50 sign on Failed interviews at Twitter, Apple I have worked in smaller companies throughout my career. No FAANG experience. I work on both ML algorithms as well as ML infra. Ask me anything about these companies and MLE specific questions as well. 4 YoE.
Stripe - good offer.
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How WLB at Stripe?
Joined recently. Team is friendly, chill. Slack channels and emails are quiet after 5 PM. No one in my team works past that. On call can take up a lot of your time during the day, but not during off hours.
Which are you taking? Was that Pinterest final offer? Do you have PhD?
Nvm first question, see you took stripe obviously
No PhD. Masters + 4 YoE
Why are the levels all over the place?
I interviewed at Pinterest and Snap a while ago when I had 3.X YoE. FB, Stripe and Roblox were at 4 YoE. I felt that YoE is the biggest factor in leveling and not interview performance.
Congrat 🚀🎉🎊
What were the interviews like ?
Is MLE a different band at Stripe? What was your previous job?
No idea regarding bands. My interview at Stripe went exceptionally well. My previous job was at a small company unknown to most of Blind. So, I will avoid mentioning that to not expose my identity.
What material did you use to prepare for ML portions of an onsite like ML sys design or ML fundamentals/theory rounds?
I was pretty strong in System design previously. I have hands on experience in designing ML infra. So, I did not have to prepare for ML system design explicitly for interviews. For FB, I recommend reading Grokking course. ML fundamentals were from all over the place. Usually they ask traditional ML modeling, feature selection, overfitting, data collection etc.
Great offers! What’s the base and stock break up for them?
Pinterest - 160 base 600/ 4 years equity Snap - don’t remember but typical levels.FYI offer Roblox - 230 base 720 equity Roku - 325 base 400 equity Stripe - 240 base 250 equity/year 15% bonus FB - 210 base 700 equity 15% bonus
This is insane. At least I know the max band for ic3 roblox