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“It was an internship role, AI engineer. First was an online coding round on arrays and strings where I had to return a palindromic subsequence, and later they asked dynamic programming and a linked list hard question.”
“I went all the way to the final round at Coinbase, did a super round with five case interviews, and honestly felt I nailed all of them, but I still never heard back and got zero feedback.”
“The most Apple question I got was basically how I would make Siri actually useful, and I ended up pitching an LLM wrapper around Shortcuts so Siri could build full automations from one plain-English request.”
“They labeled one round “AI deep dive,” so I was studying all my AI stuff, and then she did not ask me any deep tech questions. She asked another case on proactivity, which kind of confirmed they didn’t really have a firm process.”
“I was definitely caught off guard because I was expecting more of a LeetCode type of question, and instead they showed a diagram about obstacles colliding and wanted me to figure out which one was bigger and where the force would move.”
“I just found like nervousness dropped my IQ like 20 points, so I ended up doing a lot of mocks with GPT. Then I started seeing way more causal inference in interviews, like the field can go back to the science part.”
“They literally moved my final to their hackathon and I ended up interviewing at 1:00 a.m. at the office. It was supposed to be collaborative, but instead I got dropped into this huge unfamiliar class and had to understand their code fast.”
“My system design round was literally, “You’re a Netflix subscriber, you forgot your password. Design everything that happens after you click the forgot password button,” including all the behind the scenes flow and edge cases.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
