I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Shopee
Interview
It was actually a good experience with Shopee, though I actually do not pass the online test. I actually miss the first test but was contacted by the HR team friendly.
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Question 1
After the test, I feel like it seems like two easy level leetcode problems. But with camera and mic on, I was kind of nervous in the first place. The description of the problem is long, but can be concluded into very short sentence. Finish both but only one get to run correctly, the first one cost me some time.
Went straight into coding problem once the video call started, without any introduction or other converstion. Typical technical interview with coding problems of leetcode hard level. Also asked some machine learning conceptual questions.
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Question 1
How do you calculate AUC given a list of positive and negative instances sorted by the predicted score?
It was ok. There was a coding challenge followed by 2 interviews. Coding challenge was doable. 2 interviews lasted 1.5 hours each. One peculiar thing that happened was during the interview process they switched the exact team i was interviewing for 2 times.
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Question 1
Technical interview asked about performing matrix multiplication in an efficient manner and a couple of questions regarding machine learning
1. HR phone call to decide which team you want to interview with. Also asked about salary expectations.
2. Technical interview on Zoom with an engineer
3. Technical interview on Zoom with the team lead
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Question 1
The HR call was very short and I did not get asked behavioural questions. The HRs are very nice and reply to emails very quickly.
Then the technical interviews. It seems that they have a pool of questions that are shared with all engineers. So the first interviewer asked me backend questions even though I applied for MLE. The interviewer was nice about it when I told them that I have not learned certain topics in school.
I was asked about the Machine Learning projects on my resume. They wanted to see how well you know the specific concepts and ML algorithms you used in these projects.
For the coding challenge, I got a pretty easy question in the first round, about designing a cache. The question asked in the second round was quite difficult and required dynamic programming.
Also, even though the interview started in Mandarin, the interviewer switched to English when I told them that I did not know technical terms in Chinese. We had no problem in terms of communication.
