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Snorkel AI AI Researcher (Pretraining infra) Interview Experience

Snorkel AI · Mid level · AI Engineer

ResultRejected
Timespan2 months
DifficultyVery difficult
Rounds4

Interview process

The first round was recruiter screening via phone call, it went well. Then a zoom call with the principal software engineer, that went well too. Then came the 4 round loop. I messed up during the system design, as the structure for that round was completely different from what was described. The rest went well. But yeah didn make it

Interview rounds · 4

  1. 1

    Recruiter screen

    1. Q1. Tell me about yourself.
  2. 2

    Technical round

    1. Q1. Tell me about yourself.
    2. Q2. Tell me about your greatest success.
    3. Q3. Questions on kubernetes and slurm
  3. 3

    Other round

    System DesignCodingCross-Functional

    It was a loop.

    1. Q1. It was a loop
    2. Q2. System component coding round - code a snapshot mechanism in etcd
    3. Q3. System design - design a server client system where user provides the data and the server has programmatic labeling functions that makes dataset out of it for model training
    4. Q4. Kubernetes debugging
  4. 4

    Final / onsite round

    1. Q1. Hiring manager and team specific questions

Tips from the candidate

Try to get as much information form the recruiter as possible. A lot of uncertain things came up during the interview.

Very technical interview

Company culture

The vibe was nice, the interviwers were nice. The hiring manager i feel was a little on to the stricter side, but yeah thats to that

Details

CompanySnorkel AI
RoleAI Engineer
LevelMid level
LocationUnited States
InterviewedJun 2026
Questions asked9