Scale AI interview notes, page 5 of 8

“Pretty standard 'why us' question but Scale is specific enough that vague answers probably don't land well.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Scale AI, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The structure they gave looked like [{"id":"1"}, {"deadline":2}, {"subtasks":["2","3"]}] and you had to figure out where 'consumed' fits and what it even means in context.” 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 was basically the whole interview packed into one question.” 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 was part 3 of a multi-part coding problem.” 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 question sounds like a warmup but it absolutely is not.” 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.

“The join part was fine, group by neighborhood and pull all the intervals together.” 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 actual bug was pretty small once you found it, a single wrong field name in the filter.” 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.

“I had an answer ready for this but rambled more than I wanted to.” 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.

“My first instinct was just a min-heap on deadlines and I started coding that up before I actually read the prerequisite part 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.

“Sorting the intervals first was the obvious move but I second-guessed myself for a minute on how to handle overlapping ones before merging.” 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.