The interview consisted of a series of on-site interviews. These included the following: system design interview, as well as an LLM and agents quiz. The interviews were each about 1 hour.
It started out pleasant and then went very theoretical. They seemed more interested in theory rather than practice. Many what if questions, looking for specific buzz words, a bit confrontational as well rather than collaborative
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Inflection AI (Palo Alto, CA) in July 2023
Interview
1. Firstly a few rounds of programing exercises for coding and algorithms, and AI related coding. 2. Then a few on-site interviews about past experience, ML domain expertise, ML systems and behavior questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the programming question is to implement sampling algorithms used during decoding.