Two Phone Screens, Rejected in ML System Design

Sharing an interview experience for a lesser-known company. It's a video generation startup that seems to be doing pretty well lately. I mass-applied to one position, but the recruiter contacted me about a different role instead. There were two phone screens total, both 45 minutes. Round 1 was coding: implement an ngram class with fit and generate methods. fit reads a file and counts ngrams, and…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.