I applied online. I interviewed at Silent Eight (Warsaw, Masovia)
Interview
1) Screening call
2) 'take-home' ml assignment
The task is to analyse transactions dataset, clean the data, create ml pipeline and present the final accuracy and f1-score
3)Assignment review with Senior manager
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Overall thinking process, feature reduction, ml model choice
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Silent Eight (Pune) in Mar 2025
Interview
I had a bad interview experience at Silent Eight. The first round of interview with the technical recruiter named Marta went well. The recruiter told me that there would total 3 rounds of interviews, first two would be the technical rounds and the last one would be with hiring manager. So, after the first round of interview with you technical recruiter ( which went quite well). I was selected for second round of interview which was scheduled after a long time with a developer named Adam who was based out of Poland. The second round also went quite well, Adam was a well spoken person and a very gentle guy. He responded with a positive feedback. Till this point everything seemed good and the third round of interview was scheduled with the Hiring manager ( which was again after a long time). I was excited about it but then when I joined the meeting it was a surprise for me that this interview was not with the Hiring manager, its was a technical interview with a person named Ganesh K S. This person took a technical coding interview for about 2 hours even though the interview was scheduled for 45 mins. Very unprofessional, this was the point where things going wrong. In the first place they switched a Hiring manager interview into a technical interview and technical interview was also streched for 2 hours, even after this I was expecting that I will receive a feedback from the recruiter I didn't receive any feedback. After two weeks of waiting I mailed the recruiter asking for feedback and she told me that they moving ahead with another candidate. Such an unprofessional behaviour from Silent Eight ! They just wasted a lot of time of mine.!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about the experience with Angular 17+ version. One question was about the stand alone components.
This was one of the strangest interview processes I’ve been through. The first interview with the HR representative was great - she was very professional, informative, and kind. The second interview with one of the department heads is where everything fell apart. The person asked strange questions that were more open ended, but acted openly displeased if you didn’t answer the way they wanted. They also constantly interrupted me. The strangest part was when it was my turn to ask them the specifics of the role and where they could see it headed along with tasks, they couldn’t answer my questions. Definitely not the kind of team I would want to work with in the long-term.