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A 60-Minute Split Between ML and Coding

SnapchatMachine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

The phone call was divided into three time blocks. During the first 15 minutes, I gave my introduction and answered behavioral questions. The middle 15 minutes covered machine learning fundamentals. We discussed how to address overfitting, how to address class imbalance, the basics of optimizers, and model evaluation metrics together with their definitions. I was also asked to give a brief introd…

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