I applied online. I interviewed at Inceptive (CA) in May 2026
Interview
Introduces company, go over job descriptions, etc
1- what is gradient of a constant? (0)
2- memory complexity of transformer (N^2)
3- What happens if the learning rate is too small
Why do you want to work at Inceptive?
Six stages of various technical interviews, spread over weeks. At first all fine, then I got a guy who didn't know which position he was interviewing for, complaied of being hungry, asked for practical solutions to the problem they were trying to solve as if that was a paid consultancy, then read out mechanically some HR questions. At the end I got ghosted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a machine learning system for RNA stability?
