I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Simpplr in Sept 2024
Interview
4 rounds
Round 1 Technical ML+ DL+ Transformers based questions
Round 2 Take home assignment building an end to end RAG application
Round 3 Discussion on Take home assignment and evaluation of the RAG pipeline built
Round 4 Discussion with the Tech Lead:
Resume based and A short coding question based on Backtracking
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Projects undertaken and did any project go into production
Question about working of optimization algorithm.
Question about Bagging and Boosting
Weight initialisation in NN
Fundamental difference between encoder and Decoder
Equation of loss function for BCE and cross entropy.
Back propagation mathematical expression
Randomforest working
Attention Mechanism working in depth intuition.
Comparison of different optimizers.