Algo: Live coding on 2 medium leetcode problems
ML: Deep dive on transformers, training, and inference. Plus practical coding (e.g., implement an attention head).
Discuss past projects with the team and lead. Assess collaboration skills and role alignment.
Rigorous, practical, and fast-paced—they look for builders who can ship LLM features.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algo: Live coding on 2 medium leetcode problems
ML: Deep dive on transformers, training, and inference. Plus practical coding (e.g., implement an attention head).
Discuss past projects with the team and lead. Assess collaboration skills and role alignment.
Rigorous, practical, and fast-paced—they look for builders who can ship LLM features.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at VK (Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg) in Oct 2021
Interview
HR contacted me and told me that we can have two separate screening and then coding interviews with 1.5 hours each, or that we can try to have only one 3 hours interview but with a combination of screening and coding. I chose to have everything separated because I was worried about getting tired and performing worse because of that.
Everything was fast and polite, and the process was fun.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Screening questions:
1. How VK handles traffic this big? Tell us what happens when you open vk.com in your browser?
2. Can you tell us about your experience with mysql, nosql databases?
3. Can you tell us how database indexes work?
4. Can you tell us how to implement "flood control" mechanism at the backend.
5. What is your experience with React and TypeScript?
I applied online. I interviewed at VK (Mumbai) in May 2024
Interview
The interview was average.. there was a three rounds of the interview. And it was nice. The HR was very friendly. And the accept the order. As Capgemini is nice company to work
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at VK (Moscow, Moskva) in Apr 2022
Interview
In general nice, but were some strange aspects as a kind of a stress interview where interviewers tried to challenge me re the home task (complicated financial model)... In common practice it's OK, but they said no word re my work, instead of this they criticized their own assumptions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please describe your previous experience (deals, tasks, industry knowledge)
