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Mostly behavioral questions like: - What did you do when you didn't deliver on time? - Tell me about an achievement you are proud of - Tell me about a time when you took ownership of a critical system or project. - Describe a situation where you had to make a tough technical decision and live with the consequences - How have you multiplied your impact beyond your own code? - Describe a situation where you shared knowledge that significantly helped your team or organization.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at TomTom

3.8
Apr 13, 2026

Mostly behavioral questions like: - What did you do when you didn't deliver on time? - Tell me about an achievement you are proud of - Tell me about a time when you took ownership of a critical system or project. - Describe a situation where you had to make a tough technical decision and live with the consequences - How have you multiplied your impact beyond your own code? - Describe a situation where you shared knowledge that significantly helped your team or organization.

Theory on Transformers and the difference/similarities with RNN. System design to identify NSFW social media posts. Coding - take home code base to familiarise yourself with the problem, expected to redo everything from scratch during 45min (key concepts are asyncio, unit test, embeddings) Enjoyable exercise, but no time to think, you are expected to be a team member that uses this daily so can write and test code quickly.
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Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Interviewed at SentinelOne

4.4
Aug 13, 2024

Theory on Transformers and the difference/similarities with RNN. System design to identify NSFW social media posts. Coding - take home code base to familiarise yourself with the problem, expected to redo everything from scratch during 45min (key concepts are asyncio, unit test, embeddings) Enjoyable exercise, but no time to think, you are expected to be a team member that uses this daily so can write and test code quickly.

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