I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Unit21 (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2025
Interview
1st Round: Call with CTO (Behavioral + Seeing if your background aligns with the position)
2nd Round: Technical Interview (Technical, test questions about LLMs + applied LLM coding question)
Was rejected after the 2nd round so unsure about what's after this one. I believe I went through the rounds great, seemed very positive from both interviewers and were talking about next steps at the end of each, but they went with another candidate that had more experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about your experience? - most important to align your background to what the position is about.
2. What is a foundational model?
3. When would you pre-train vs train vs finetune a model