Approached by recruiter with whom I had an initial phone call. Then had a video technical interview. The procedure and logistics was all very smooth. I was asked about my background (with a couple of follow-up questions), then a couple of basic ML questions, then a coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Bias variance trade-off, then leetcode style question
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok
Interview
Around early Feb, I received interview invitation. The position is machine learning engineer. Here is my timeline.
Feb 12 1st tech round
Feb 18 2nd tech round
Feb 26 HM round
Feb 27 got rejection
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given N i.i.d. Gaussian random variables, what is the distribution of their linear combination?
Asked basic machine learning questions.
Live coding was rather stressful but doable.
Interviewer was rather helpful in prompting.
Overall quite a smooth one although i did not get the offer