The interview process includes an initial call, followed by a home assignment, a live coding round, a technical interview, and concludes with the final round for decision-making and offer discussion.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Scale
Interview
Got reached out to by a recruiter. Did a first technical interview debugging some code. On-site was culture + research interview (open ended questions about LLMs + paper understanding) + coding interview classic LC-like question.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Scale (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2024
Interview
Process consisted of a technical screen (take-home coding challenge based either on NLP or computer vision) followed by a live coding session. The final step is a set of onsite interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Cannot reveal actual interview questions as I signed an NDA
ML Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Scale with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for ML Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Scale overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Scale as a ML Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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