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ML Infra Questions, Not a Match

TowerMachine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

After getting rejected at the QR stage earlier, I got picked up by another MLE team. Through this I also learned a bit about how some quant firms work: different teams (pods) seem to hire independently, and the teams share one company-wide infra while their strategies are isolated from each other. The title for this role was MLE, but it actually sounded more like they needed someone for ML infra…

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