Routine first interview experience. Interviewer not very interested in following up with past experience details. Coding difficulty OK. Overall feels like they are doing this by their internal guideline and nothing else.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance (Singapore) in Jan 2025
Interview
Gone through two rounds of technical interviews, didn't have the chance to go to the final round. Both rounds consist of leetcode, project Q&A, and LLM training experience and knowledge about it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Difference between PPO, DPO, GRPO
2. Explain KV cache and how it is stored
3. Explain the whole transformer architecture
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ByteDance
Interview
Virtual Interview with live leetcode medium/hard. Test fundamentals of ML like bias variance tradeoff, deep decision tree vs random forest classifier, precision vs recall and what to prioritise in different scenarios