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Have finished part one, the interviewer was very nice and was just personable. I haven’t gone through a send in’s stage yet. Wish me luck I’m looking forward to my second phase.

The process included an initial recruiter screen, a technical interview with a senior ML engineer, and a final panel consisting of three separate one-hour technical interviews. The discussions focused heavily on ML systems, transformer architectures, inference optimization, quantization, deployment on constrained hardware, and debugging/model performance issues. The interviewers were technically strong and clearly cared about first-principles reasoning and systems-level thinking. The final round was very coding-heavy, with multiple live implementation and debugging exercises covering Python, PyTorch, and low-level tensor/data structure concepts. Overall, the technical bar was high and the conversations were interesting, especially for candidates interested in hardware-aware machine learning and infrastructure. However, the process leaned excessively toward live coding for an ML Engineering role, and the post-interview communication was disappointing. After completing the panel and sending multiple professional follow-ups, I never received any response or closure from recruiting.