Sony Software Engineer interview experience

The first focused on balanced dataset splitting for machine learning using class labels, and the second built on that with stratified splitting. Even though they were coding tasks, the overall setup felt relaxed and collaborative.

I wasn’t just thrown problems to solve in silence—I got constructive feedback at the end, and the interviewer encouraged a back-and-forth style while I worked through the questions. That made the experience feel more like a discussion of my thinking than a stress test.

I didn’t end up getting an offer, but I left feeling like the process was fair and that my