Petuum Interview Questions
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First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Petuum.
Petuum
Software Engineer
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Take home Phone screen Onsite
Interview formats
Coding Technical
Worst experience ever. Passed the coding challenge and phone interview. The recruiter requested an onsite interview. I sent my schedule over. 3 weeks after, I was told they would not move forward with me. The recruiter never replied my emails. I had other interviews in the same period, and it was really hard for me to manage my schedule since they NEVER replied my email. I guess they prefer local candidates. If they find local fits, they would cancel your interview. To me, the company seems to be too cheap. I know pay is low. I like what Dr. Xing does, and this is the only reason I applied for Petuum. However, very disappointed. Will never consider the company. Eric is a good researcher, but definitely not a good CEO.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Questions about algorithms and data structures
Petuum
Computer Vision Engineer
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding
I got an email from the recruiter saying I was shortlisted for the first interview round and they asked for my availability. The interviewer didn't call at the scheduled time. He rescheduled, and it finally happened after two weeks. But the interviewer wasn't interested at all. He even muted himself for a while. It was a pretty bad interview experience!
Confirmed questions1 question
- A medium LeetCode problem was asked, and also a question about Machine Learning.
Petuum
ML Tester
Entry Difficult Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
I applied for the test engineer role and was referred by my friend, so I didn't have to do an OA. The process took about 4 weeks in total, with one tech interview, then an hr query, and then another tech interview. Scheduling the interviews took some time.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Reverse a linked list and discuss follow-up questions.
- Basic ML concepts.
- Discuss your relevant experience.
Petuum
Software Engineer Computer Vision
Entry Average Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
I applied online and heard back from a recruiter via email about a month later. The first round was a 45-minute interview with 2 simple coding questions. Unfortunately, I didn't make it through, even though the interviewer said my answers were correct and gave me feedback.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- How would you approach sorting?
- Can you explain a basic CNN concept?
Petuum Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Petuum interview reports.
“Is one word an anagram of another?”
Read reports →“Given the list ['123', '213', 'acd', '321', 'dac'], how would you group them into [['123', '321', '213'], ['acd', 'dac']]?”
Read reports →“What is the purpose and usage of unique_ptr?”
Read reports →“What is K-means?”
Read reports →“What is KNN?”
Read report →“Explain L1 normalization.”
Read report →“Explain L2 normalization.”
Read report →“How would you display each letter and its occurrence count from a string, considering up to 10 distinct letters?”
Read report →“How does shared_ptr work and when would you use it?”
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