I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Sea Machines (Boston, MA) in Mar 2022
Interview
The interview process involved 7 rounds of interviews and a 30min detailed presentation on any machine learning projects done in past .
- Perception engineer (1)
- Data engineer (2) where they asked questions about a specific problem they are facing in their day to day job.
- Software Engineer (1)
- Hiring manager (2)
- CTO (1)
After a week it was followed by a timed 3 hour coding assignment with 6 questions with multiple subsections. It took overall 1.5 months to complete the process. Overall it was a bad experience as they just keep on interviewing for the sake of it. My mistake was not to exit this process early on when there were obvious signals.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This was followed by a timed 3 hour coding assignment which will be sent 10 min before. So the context is unknown up till that point.
Q 1-3 : typical leet code style questions to be done on hacker rank
Q-4 : using a pretrained model write functions to predict labels and their probabilities. Through transfer learning change the VGG architecture for a 10 class classification problem. write code for other metrics used for evaluation.
Q5: Develop a machine learning algorithm which should include data processing, covariance matrix, specifying training testing sets, evaluation and visualizing metrics
Q6) using some python library to do data analysis which was specific to their routine work I guess.
I would leave it up to the readers to decide if all this is possible within 3 hours or not.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sea Machines (Boston, MA) in Dec 2021
Interview
My interview process took roughly 2 weeks. Interview was very calm and relatively easy. First two steps were just with hiring manager and senior dev and we talked about background. On the last day of interview, I had 4 different interviews with 4 different people. What's frustrating is that it could've been either a group panel or shorter interview instead of so many small interviews that were very redundant. I understand that it's still a start-up company but I hope the company comes up with a better interview process for their future candidates in the future
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Tell me about yourself
- Let's write some small app
I applied online. I interviewed at Sea Machines in Jan 2021
Interview
I was contacted by one of their HR employees to ask further questions about my current country of residence and I replied on the same day. He/She did not reply back and after about 10 days, I received an email asking when I while be available for a video call, I replied on the same day and did not receive a reply; not even an apology that the position has been filled or maybe they have another candidate that is more suitable.
This experience was enough to give me a bad impression about them. They don’t respect their candidates enough to reply, why will they be any different when they hire you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Are you currently eligible to work in the country of the position? (Via email)