I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at IBM
Interview
Interviewers asked about my research thesis, but they were not impressed by it, and didn't give me chance to explain too much. The interview ended quickly, I don't understand why I was invited to it at all.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Feb 2025
Interview
The process starts with the first two interviews, a research machine learning one, focusing on a previous project and solving skills. And a technical code one, that tackles research-related code problems. Then, a talk/interview with a manager, an HR talk, and after that, an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe building a RAG system, including retrievers and a generator, and describe your considerations.
2 interviews of 1 hour. one was with question on transformers (e.g. explain attention) and basic ML. Another coding interview (basic python questions). Also many questions about prior work I did. Not very difficult and felt fair.