After applying online, a recruiter reached out to me after a month. The recruiter screening was standard. They mentioned that Ads is now centralized hiring and that interviews will be in the same pipeline before arranging team match. My phone screen questions...
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I spent 30 minutes discussing my research project. Then, I was asked the following technical questions: - Describe self-attention - Why is the attention score divided by sqrt(dim)? - Describe LoRA, and what are its benefits? - Why does LoRA reduce GPU memory c...
Part 1: Given a list of episode IDs from a user's viewing history, determine if there are any duplicate episodes. ``` print(has_duplicate_episodes([55, 66, 77, 88, 99])) # return: False (no duplicates) print(has_duplicate_episodes([55, 66, 77, 88, 66])) # retu...
## Preparation Tips & Key Takeaways ### What I Learned - I need to improve my communication and clarification skills, especially using example-oriented clarification to avoid misunderstandings. - Under pressure, I prioritized correctness over elegance, which l...
I applied online and was contacted by HR the next day to schedule an interview. For the first 30 minutes, I was given three SQL problems related to measuring the success of a new movie launch on Netflix. I needed to design a pipeline and identify the necessary...
I interviewed for a software engineer position. In the coding round, the interviewer presented a problem involving a name to configuration metadata mapping. Given a JSON query, the task was to return configurations that matched the query criteria. The metadata...
After applying, I waited a week before the HR reached out. I almost asked for a referral when the HR contacted me. **HR Round:** The HR round was standard. I was asked about why I was switching jobs, what I currently do, and what my strengths are. The HR repre...
The phone screen was a system design discussion about sentiment analysis. I didn't have to write code, but the interviewer asked detailed follow-up questions. In the virtual onsite round, the questions covered advertising technology. A unique aspect was the qu...
### Phone Screen This was my second phone screen. The first was a skip-level with the hiring manager, who was on leave. I was asked to: Part 1: Given a list of episode IDs representing a user's viewing history, determine if there are any duplicate episodes. ``...
This was my onsite interview. Because I passed the VO1, they scheduled the VO2 (onsite). **Round 1:** I spoke with a manager from the team I was interviewing with. This round was purely behavioral, mainly discussing Netflix's culture. check https://jobs.netfli...
