Hardware Engineer Interview Questions

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Asked at Amazon, AWS, Opendoor • a year ago
Tell me about a time when you made short-term sacrifices for long-term gains.
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"Recently, I had to make a decision that I could automate a part of a process now and help the operations team reducing 9 hours of manual work to 60 minutes for one client. The second option was to fully automate the end to end process that would take 4 weeks of development, but fully automate the process and that could be rolled out across the board. The process was to change the member's paperless preference to paper when a sent email gets bounced 3 times in a row and inform her with a paper"
Anonymous Aardvark - "Recently, I had to make a decision that I could automate a part of a process now and help the operations team reducing 9 hours of manual work to 60 minutes for one client. The second option was to fully automate the end to end process that would take 4 weeks of development, but fully automate the process and that could be rolled out across the board. The process was to change the member's paperless preference to paper when a sent email gets bounced 3 times in a row and inform her with a paper"See full answer
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Asked at Anthropic • 3 months ago
Design an inference batching system for a single GPU that can handle up to 100 inputs per batch while users wait synchronously, maximizing utilization under compute constraints.
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Artificial Intelligence
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"Functional requirements: user can send an input and wait for the result Group up to 100 individual requests in to single GPU The system should should send results back to the user who requested it when done Non functional requirements: Minimize the waiting between two batches of execution/ reduce idle time error message if a batch faiils Scale to support multiple GPUs Core Entities: Request Batch Result API Design: POST /predict -> {requestid: "", response: ""} req"
Alok S. - "Functional requirements: user can send an input and wait for the result Group up to 100 individual requests in to single GPU The system should should send results back to the user who requested it when done Non functional requirements: Minimize the waiting between two batches of execution/ reduce idle time error message if a batch faiils Scale to support multiple GPUs Core Entities: Request Batch Result API Design: POST /predict -> {requestid: "", response: ""} req"See full answer
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Asked at Anthropic • 3 months ago
Design a peer-to-peer file distribution system that spreads a 10GB file from a single bandwidth-constrained source to thousands of interconnected hosts, each with limited input/output bandwidth, un...
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System Design
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Asked at Anthropic • 3 months ago
Code an image-processing pipeline that reads per-image instruction files and applies ordered transformations (e.g., rotate, invert, crop, convert) to large sets of images of varying sizes across mu...
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Coding
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Asked at Anthropic • 3 months ago
Tell me about a time you had a moral conflict with work you are assigned to do.
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Asked at Anthropic • 3 months ago
How much do you care about safety and security?
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Asked at Anthropic • 3 months ago
How do you balance delivery with security concerns?
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Asked at Tesla • 3 years ago
Why Tesla?
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Behavioral
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"Too Technical and too serious. Show personality, they do not put on videos most times, so you won't see them, but they are watching you."
Oluwaseun F. - "Too Technical and too serious. Show personality, they do not put on videos most times, so you won't see them, but they are watching you."See full answer
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Asked at Anthropic • 3 months ago
Present a recent project with big scale and cross-functional involvement.
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