Aced the DSA rounds, then answered ML questions like an engineer instead of a product person
Software Engineer III (ML)·Onsite·2026
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This is the exact thing that happened to me at a different AI company. Every answer I gave was correct in the ML sense and beside the point in the product sense.
"Is the model good enough" is never a metrics question — this is going in my prep notes immediately.