Alibaba Group Research Intern interviews, decoded.

So basically there are two types of interviews, one with researchers and another one with supervisors. Most of the interview will be a discussion about your research projects. They might also ask questions on LeetCode medium problems and on Transformer and ROPE.

Candidates who pass the initial screening will go through a total of three rounds. The first round will be a technical interview, followed by a recruiter call and then an in-person or panel interview. The in-person/panel interviews will be with hiring managers, team members, or other stakeholders to dive deeper into your experience, skills, and check your cultural fit.

I had three tech interviews, one where they looked over my CV, two about ML (including regression and logistic regression), and then an HR interview. The HR interview covered my weaknesses and strengths, and my career goals.