I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hugging Face
Interview
Steps:
* Interview with HR
* Take-home test
* Debrief of the take-home test
* Discussion with the CTO
* Offer
The process is well organized and simple. However very deceptive. I have made it clear what was the minimum salary I was expecting. The HR told me it was possible. Even with a "very good" technical exercise the maximum salary was 20% lower than my current one, which I shared with them in the beginning of the process.
Stop wasting people's time!!! If you can't match their salary, just say it at the beginning of the process. During the technical debrief even when their technical team said they have "learned a lot" with my solution. What else do you want people to do?!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For this exercise you have to:
1. Pick one of the datasets in https://huggingface.co/datasets
2. Implement a web API to launch queries on the contents of the dataset (eg. full-text
search among the contents, or aggregation over the values of a column)
3. Pick any tool/language/framework you want, but explain why.
4. Choose the query language, explain why it’s the more appropriate, and generate a
minimal Getting started documentation
5. Deploy your API in the Cloud. Pick any cloud, any hardware. We can reimburse any
hosting costs you may incur.
Your deployment should be reproducible and somewhat scalable