Yes, we’d definitely expect some practical ML knowledge, and yes, there would be a coding interview.
There isn’t a set bar; I could imagine hiring someone who did merely okay on the ML interview and was kinda bad on the coding interview, but both their past work and other interviews demonstrated excellent conceptual reasoning skills, precisely because we have many primarily conceptual projects. But I don’t trust conceptual reasoning to get the answer right, if you have very little understanding of how AI systems work in practice, so I still care about some level of ML knowledge.
Yes, we’d definitely expect some practical ML knowledge, and yes, there would be a coding interview.
There isn’t a set bar; I could imagine hiring someone who did merely okay on the ML interview and was kinda bad on the coding interview, but both their past work and other interviews demonstrated excellent conceptual reasoning skills, precisely because we have many primarily conceptual projects. But I don’t trust conceptual reasoning to get the answer right, if you have very little understanding of how AI systems work in practice, so I still care about some level of ML knowledge.
Thanks Rohin!