Snap Machine Learning Engineer interview experience

On paper it was a clean, concept-based conversation, but what stood out to me was the mismatch between how experienced the interviewers claimed to be and how comfortable they seemed with core topics.

They asked about things like Transformers and even touched on basics such as the weight decay part of the Adam optimizer, but it came across as new to at least one interviewer. The discussion also felt disconnected from the kind of recommendation system architecture I was expecting to hear about—when the company’s product context came up, they didn’t seem very familiar with it.

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