I applied online. I interviewed at Sony (San Mateo, CA)
Interview
Interview consists of multiple rounds. In each round, a scientist asks about your past research as well as some ML and DL breadth questions. After passing all rounds, they ask for two presentation: one for your own work and the other for a paper that they assign to you. Interview process takes very long( 3-4 months) and one needs to follow up constantly to be able to schedule each one of the interview. HR handles the offer and based on a personal experience HR does not take into account the interview performance, years of experience or communicate with the hiring manager about candidate expectations which is unacceptable and unjust to candidates that goes through such long interview process...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Self-supervised learning, l1-l2 regularization and their differences, model compression techniques.
I applied online. I interviewed at Sony (Zürich) in Nov 2023
Interview
The interview process is lighter than in other companies; there was a recruiter call, then hiring manager round, to discuss candidate's experience.
This was followed by a "technical round" which was again digging into the prior experience and didn't feel too technical. There was one coding round, consisting of a standard, LeetCode style question, with difficulty of an "easy medium", doable in ~20 minutes, including clarifying requirements.
There was no system design round; there was a "project management experience" round which was similar to a behavioral round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Variation of LC299, given a "secret" input, generate a hint based on this secret.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Sony (Stuttgart) in Dec 2021
Interview
First with the line manager(first interview about experience and possible fit, second interview with presentation on topic they chose) with manager, head of department and whole team. Finally the generic part with HR
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