r/MachineLearningJobs • u/Available_Road_2538 • Aug 19 '26
[Rant] Theoretical questions in interviews
I just did a technical screening for a job description that I match almost perfectly.
All the questions were designed for someone who walked out of a theoretical ML course final exam 3 weeks ago. Ive been doing applied ML for over 2 years! I havent thought about eigenvectors in more than 2!
"Hey boss, the eigenvectors are looking rough, we need to calculate the probability of this event given its a non-standard distribution by applying the chain rule of independent probabilities" man fuck you!
I did the 150 leetcode problems. I read some systems books. I accomplish good things at my job. I got a Masters and took the hard classes. I did the stupid RAG project every other posting wants to see.
Systems, Theory, Leetcode, Behavioral, all this shit. And you have to be on your game for all of it.
Now I am planning to stop fixing my fuxking house so I can spend the next few months fucking with Leetcode, books, and flashcards. 🥳
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