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Two Rounds on Video Retrieval and CLIP, Then Silence

SnapchatMachine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Feb 2026

I just finished two rounds of interviews this week, applying machine learning to design a short-video recommendation system. The first round covered how to design a query retrieval system, assuming only 20% of the short videos have text descriptions. They specifically asked how CLIP works, what loss functions are used in contrastive learning, what the drawbacks of embedding-based methods are, whe…

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