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      Deep Learning Engineer Interview

      26 Sept 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Vancouver, BC
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Picovoice (Vancouver, BC) in Aug 2024

      Interview

      First there was a screening challenge, consisting of 4 questions, 3 should have been answered. Three rounds of technical interview, back to back, each 45 minutes. First one with a software engineer, second one with a deep learning researcher, third one with the CTO/CEO. Each round was one question, implementation.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Edit distance using Dynamic Programming implementation in C. Implementation done in an online code pad, no auto complete etc.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      With a 5x5 matrix, they told me to “cluster” the values in the matrix. No further details was given.
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      They gave me a technical paper in the NLP realm, and asked me to extend the idea of paper, and implement it.
      1 Answer
      2

      Other Deep Learning Engineer interview reviews for Picovoice

      Deep Learning Engineer Interview

      24 May 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Vancouver, BC
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Picovoice (Vancouver, BC) in Jan 2022

      Interview

      I had a terrible experience with Picovoice recently. I interviewed for their Deep Learning role, and I solved their pre-screen perfectly and spent 3 days on it. The CEO even got back to me and asked me to improve further tools in the repository, which I added, and I had even re-programmed several unit tests and architected some of the codes into a better MVC-esque format. I was called to the virtual on-site. The CEO (Mr. Alireza) was very rude and called me incompetent (you're terrible at coding right now, and I'll never extend an offer to someone like you, and you need to study a lot) after I took some time to figure out an LC Medium (30 minutes?). I found that VERY unprofessional. For context, I don't think I'm terrible, I'm sitting on offers that pay me well over 2x of his pay with 2 YOE, from decently sized companies. He told all the other engineers in his team to disconnect the call and cancel further rounds immediately and didn't bother to check my resume or any other technical skills or ask me about myself. I'd expect the interviewer to at least conduct the interview properly instead of cutting me off in the middle. Mr. Alireza pays only 60k to 90k for Deep Learning fresher roles (according to his old Angel List post), and I'd say if he pays that + is rude to employees, it's abysmal. He very clearly does *not* value the time you take out from your work to work on his assignment that can take up to 20-40 hours. Find better roles. Also, his employee strength reduced from 10 to 7 in the past year (as of writing this answer). According to public information available on LinkedIn: 1-2 of the senior engineers/founders left him to join other companies or start their own ventures too. He's clearly horrible at managing his employees, and unless he learns a bit, he's crashing very soon. He does not value your seniority or experience building software too.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Online Round - easy to solve in a day if you have 3-4 years of experience writing code. I did, so it was fairly simple for me. Face to face - He treats you with disrespect and copy pastes some LeetCode mediums and asks you to solve it. If you take time to solve it, he calls you a poor candidate without caring about anything else, and asks you to stop wasting his time.
      Answer question
      8

      Deep Learning Engineer Interview

      10 Mar 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Picovoice in Jan 2022

      Interview

      Solve a list of assignments, including implementation of algorithms and models from research papers from scratch using basic Python libraries (numpy), then technical interview that has three parts, the first one is the hardest, you are told to extend the theory of an algorithm to a real time application and figure out a way to make it work

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Implement a ctc decoder for real time ocr(optical character recognition)
      Answer question
      3