1 of 2 people for each section to meet with
General advice
- Have questions ready — about team, work, etc
- All else equal, they choose the candidate with better questions
- You are not expected to know everything
- If you don’t know, call it out instead of bullshitting
Alexander (Alex) or Luc
- Who they are
- Members of Tao’s current team
- Alex is a manager
- Luke is an IC
- Good people to ask about Tao’s leadership, direction, etc
- They will be asking about MLOps
- Higher level system design
- How I approach problems from an MLOps perspective
- May also get behavioral questions
- Be ready to talk about experience and philosophy
- Use context cues
- Questions about AWS as well
- Linux questions
- They’re looking for someone who they can ideate with
- Don’t be afraid to get into details
Manahar or Justin
- Who they are
- Also on Tao’s team
- Manahar is a manager
- Justin is an IC
- Another system design interview (as I did with Chun)
- Chun was very impressed, so just do what I did
- They’re looking both for how I think and how I collaborate
- Ask questions!
- Be ready to discuss times I was involved in making decisions in ops
- how I engaged, dealt with differing priorities
- advocating for my own team, etc
Sai or Sukret
- With a partner team (data scientists)
- People I’d work with very often — want to be in lockstep together
- “Compatible knowledge, different focus”
- There could be a difference of opinion
- We lean on one another
- Discussing handoff, how the teams collaborate
- Work in an example of where I had an idea, but then deferred to the SME
- General data science questions — no coding
- Familiarity with ML algorithms
Geet or Anika
- Product management team for AI/ML
- They’re not hands-on users
- But they’re up-to-date on DS/ML
- Need to be able to explain thought process
- But you don’t need to explain what NLP is, or what a pipeline is
- “Is there any part of my response you want me to get into more?”
- “The logistics of problem solving”
Justin is on PTO starting mid-week next week, so I’ll get feedback from another
- Caitlin (his manager) or Mackenna