RejectedOnsite

Four-Round Onsite, Rejected After Two AI Coding Rounds

MetaMachine Learning Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026

I applied online to a search/ads/recommendation MLE role. The onsite was four rounds in total: behavioral, system design, and two rounds of AI coding. The behavioral round was just everyday questions, and the system design was a recommendation system. For coding, one question was a triple card game and the other was the maximum number of unique characters, both of them questions you can find onli…

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