Couldn't recall the DBMS details and that cost me. OA was fine. Technical asked about indexing and race conditions, stuff I knew but hadn't reviewed. Then had to explain an ML project end to end including loss function choice
Questions Asked
1.“Explain the bias-variance trade-off”
Machine Learning Engineer
San Jose, CA
Winter 2026Accepted
University of Toronto · Computer Science
4th year · 3.7+ GPA · 3 past internships
Hard Interview
Technical
Their ML OA is completely different from SWE, 3 Python questions focused on linear algebra and NumPy. then the technical interview was ML system design and they went into questions about residual connections and in context learning in LLMs. you need solid deep learning knowledge not just leetcode skills
Questions Asked
1.“Whats the difference between precision and recall? When does each matter more?”
Software Engineer
Noida, UP
Winter 2025Accepted
IIT Delhi · Computer Science and Engineering
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Hard Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual
Did not expect probability and stats MCQs on the OA but there they were alongside DSA questions. Technical covered OS topics like paging and semaphores plus a project discussion. Behavioral was standard. About four weeks total
Questions Asked
1.“Describe a time you disagreed with your tech lead's architectural choice and what happened.”
2.“Find all unique combinations from an array that sum to a target”
Software Engineer
Summer 2026Accepted
IIT Madras · Computer Science
4th year · 3.7+ GPA · 1 past internship
Live codingFast processTechnical
Live coding some hacker rank or leetcode question medium difficulty they let you pick any language you are good at it was string question
Software Engineer
San Jose, CA
Summer 2025No Offer
Simon Fraser University · Computing Science
2nd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 0 past internships
Hard Interview
Technical
HackerRank OA easy/medium. panel was 45 min of DP, two problems one after another
Questions Asked
1.“Design a file storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive.”