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3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- 60-Minute Screen With a Numpy Embedding Ranking QuestionYahoo · Machine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
60 minutes, coding + ML knowledge. The coding had to be done with numpy. The input was a user embedding vector and N item embedding vectors. Taking the dot product of the two gives a similarity score. The task was to sort the N items by score from high to low, and the output is the list of item indices after sorting. The follow-up: if the user has already seen some of those items, filter the seen…
- Great Technical Screen, Then the Role Got PausedYahoo · Machine Learning Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Feb 2026
Yahoo News interview (April), Round 1. Question 1: Talk about your background and one of your projects in detail — they dug deep into one particular project. Key points for the answer (aim for a total of 3–6 minutes) and my own suggestions: Quick background (20–30s): one sentence on the role, your responsibilities on the team, and list 1–2 projects. Deep-dive framework (3–4 minutes, using STAR):…
