Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en TikTok (Mountain View, CA) en feb 2024
Entrevista
Start with my resume. Asked a couple of questions regarding my experience. Followed by a Leecode medium coding question. The interviewer asked me a detailed question about what data model I used for my previous ML project. Asked me about basic BL concepts. Followed up with questions I wanted to ask him. After a week I got rejected.
Started with a recruiter screen with simple checks. Then went through 3 rounds of interviews. First 2 rounds were live coding with deep dive on previous projects. 2nd round went really deep of every previous work I did from MLE perspective with being questioned of every possible decision choice. Last was interview with team manager.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Recommendation system questions. Coding problems were I remember leetcode medium level.
Surprisingly straightforward — I expected a tougher challenge for a machine learning role. After a quick recruiter screen, the first technical round focused on implementing K-means clustering, which felt familiar. Handling edge cases for empty clusters was tricky, though. What really helped me prep were the algorithm explanations on PracHub, which gave me confidence going in. The final interviews were a mix of problem-solving and behavioral questions, and in the end, I received an offer that I accepted. Overall, it was a decent experience.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
implementing K-means clustering from scratch and handling empty cluster edge cases
three rounds, each has coding + ml basic + resume related questions
understand all the details in resume is important, since might go very deep down the project you have worked on