It was smooth. Very technical with tests. It was me and 2 people from their side. An engineering lead and the head of engineering. Very professional, cordial, and it was very good to hear about what the company was doing in the AI space.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at CentML (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2025
Interview
1 recruiter round, 1 pre screening round where they just go over your resume and experience, back to back technical rounds with code and basics ML systems questions on LLM inference, final CTO round on system design based on basic distributed systems
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- LLM Inference questions like paged attention, KV cache management etc.
