Machine Learning Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Alibaba Group with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Machine Learning Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Alibaba Group overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Alibaba Group as a Machine Learning Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
Presentation: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
Drug test: 10%
Personality test: 10%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Alibaba Group (Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in Jan 2020
Interview
Technical interview: 3 rounds
HR interview: 1 round
All the interview were carried out via phone and wechat, almost all the problem were based on machine learning, statistics and deep learning.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Machine learning, especially trees, boosting and gradient descent.
2. Deep Learning, NLP and CNN
I interviewed at Alibaba Group (Hangzhou, Zhejiang)
Interview
The interview was conducted entirely through a series of online meetings, during which the interviewers asked me detailed questions about my background, my research experience, and specific knowledge in machine learning algorithms and applications
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Alibaba Group (Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in Jan 2024
Interview
Overall good, it got 3 round of interview for each grad student. One for general knowledge of AI, one for specific computation of Transformer and coding specification. Last one is chatting with HR.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: What is the specific operation of self-attention?
The interview lasts about an hour. Lots of basic questions about programming are asked, but I cannot answer because I have already forgotten those concepts and principles. My previous projects and research experience are also asked.