I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bumble Inc. (London, England) in Oct 2024
Interview
Interview process consisted of 5 interviews, one HR screen, two technical interviews, one cross-functional and one with the hiring manager/leadership.
All interviews were interesting and insightful. The technical interviews were non-coding, mainly quick-fire ML and Python & Kubernetes-related questions as well as previous project experience and design choices.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What is the difference between a parquet file and csv file?
2. What is Monkey Patching?
3. What's the difference between a blue green and canary rollout?
4. Rest API vs GRPC?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bumble Inc. in Nov 2024
Interview
5 stage interview:
1st stage - call with recruiter, discussion of my experience/CV etc
2nd stage - ML/Data Science interview:
This was split into two parts. The first was a series of short fire questions on Machine Learning ("Explain correlation and covariance" etc). The second was a longer system design question where I walked through training and deployment of a hypothetical ML model.
3rd stage - MLE interview:
This was also split into two parts. The first was a series of short fire questions on Python and MLE ("What are generators are and how they differ from normal functions?", "How would you send off multiple API requests as quickly as possible?" etc). The second was a longer system design question where I walked the through productionisation of an ML model.
4th and 5th stage were soft skills interviews.
Overall a pretty positive experience. Quite a lot of stages, however on the plus side there was no take-home task (time consuming) or live coding (often not representative of the type or format of work that people actually do.)
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bumble Inc. (London, England) in Mar 2023
Interview
I got in contact directly with the recruiter and had a good matching CV for the role. It took them 2-3 weeks to say that I lack deployment experience even though the job position never mentioned any deployment experience was necessary, which isn't of course for the role I applied.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None, they just said what I described earlier. Few of my friends applied as well and it seems they all got a generic reply, if any.