These were the interviews I had: - Recruiter - Hiring manager - 2 System design: can't remember the topic of the first one, second one was RAG - 2 behavioral: e.g. What do you do when someone more senior than you disagrees with your approach? What if this person was more junior than you? - Chat with a principal engineer (the next level up from lead) Surprisingly there was no coding interview even though the recruiter said there would be one. I don't know if someone messed up or if that's normal for this position. I felt like I did well on all the interviews. The recruiter said i should hear back within a week after the last interview. I didn't hear anything back and emailed but got no response until two weeks later saying they selected someone else. I'm assuming they kept me on the hook as a backup in case the person they selected declined the offer. I didn't feel great waiting around for an answer but unfortunately, that seems to be the norm these days.

Chat with recruiter, chat with hiring manager to assess fit, interactive technical screen in a Jupyter notebook to assess machine learning proficiency, technical architecture discussion on using AWS and other MLOps tech stack components and screen. Technical interview screen was scheduled for a Friday evening. Interviewer seemed unhappy and exhausted. The questions were haphazard and seemingly random as opposed to being consistent across candidates. While the role was a lead level machine learning engineer, the interviewer seemed more focused on data science oriented proficiencies.