Scale AI interview notes, page 4 of 8

“Took me a second to even parse what they were asking.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Scale AI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question that sounds easy until you're in it and realize your story has no real numbers attached.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Scale AI, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I know LCA for binary trees pretty well but the N-ary version tripped me up for a minute because you can't just go left/right anymore.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Scale AI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Heap was the obvious move here and I went straight for it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Scale AI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Scale AI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to overcomplicate this with intervals.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Scale AI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The dependency angle is what makes this problem worth thinking about carefully.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Scale AI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The async-inside-useEffect pattern tripped me up for a second.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Scale AI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The copy-based version came together pretty quickly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Scale AI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Took me longer than I'd like to admit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Scale AI, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.