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      Lead ML Engineer, Recommendations Interview

      Apr 5, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Brooklyn, NY
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at eBay (Brooklyn, NY) in Apr 2024

      Interview

      I think I almost got it! But the interview was an extremely complex coding challenge especially given the constrained time frame allotted for its completion. I remember needed to close with the return line, but time was up. Although I didn't get an offer I am quite proud of my performance. Also I am VERY thankful for the opportunity of interviewing. After I interacted with the interviewer, it's just intuition, I sensed that this project/team wasn't necessarily for me, I am not sure why. If you don't have at least around 10 years of experience coding in Python, along with a strong understanding of math, data structures, and algorithms, I think it will be nearly impossible to navigate through that level of complexity in 40 minutes.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The coding interview involved a sequential integration of binary search methodology, wherein the algorithm should return a sorted list, alongside complex combinations of nested while loops, conditional statements, absolute value functions, and index manipulation operations.
      1 Answer

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