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An Ambiguous Recommender Training Task

LinkedInMachine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

This was a very strange interview experience. It was the interviewer's first time interviewing, and she asked me to handwrite a binary-classification machine learning loader and trainer. The data was not a real dataset, so I could not write code that would actually run. She asked for pseudocode but did not explain what level of detail she wanted. She also did not clarify what the model was suppos…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.