Align Technology Software Engineer interview experience

The first was a technical interview that combined discussion of my experience with a real business problem they claimed they were dealing with. I had to talk through how I would approach solving it, which felt like a mixture of reasoning and connecting my past work to a new scenario.

The second stage split into two sessions: one was classic coding in the style of a Leet Code problem, and the other was a machine learning-focused conversation. For the ML part, I was asked to pick and review a paper from a list, and I chose a well-known attention-based paper. We then discussed it in