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Did any of you succeed in asking such questions to companies (ML/AL or not) and ended up receiving reasonable responses to your questions? My experiences have

by aecs99 9y ago

Did any of you succeed in asking such questions to companies (ML/AL or not) and ended up receiving reasonable responses to your questions? My experiences have never been great when asking such loaded questions. To be clear, I interviewed extensively at small startups and I'm only taking those interviews into consideration for this comment. The HR and technical interviewers dedicate a large amount of time for questioning you, and reserve the last few minutes to answer your questions. I lost count of how many times the interviewers would just blabber something meaningless in a rush, rather than answer a questions with patience and honesty. Of course, I made my decisions on whether or not to join the team based on such experiences. However, I cannot think of any remarkable instances where the interviewers answered such questions without getting impatient. Any chats with directors/PMs/C-level executives after receiving an offer were also not very informative. I walked out several times going in and coming back from such chats with no questions properly answered because: (a) they are still figuring out, or (b) they cannot discuss certain details because you haven't said yes to them.

lmeyerov 9y ago
I always answered this for Graphistry candidates. We take a vertical data product mindset to AI -- so just one solid piece of solving the human-in-the-loop investigation problem for security and fraud teams trying to help their responders get a handle on incidents/APIs/logs -- so perhaps we're less concerned about image. For startups with real tech, competition shouldn't be the thing that matters, but execution. For us, a great interview is one where the candidate teaches us and thereby demonstrates the potential to be a force multiplier for the team. Also, someone asking these kinds of questions suggests we may be able to put them in front of a customer!

by aecs99 9y ago

lmeyerov 9y ago

I always answered this for Graphistry candidates. We take a vertical data product mindset to AI -- so just one solid piece of solving the human-in-the-loop investigation problem for security and fraud teams trying to help their responders get a handle on incidents/APIs/logs -- so perhaps we're less concerned about image. For startups with real tech, competition shouldn't be the thing that matters, but execution. For us, a great interview is one where the candidate teaches us and thereby demonstrates the potential to be a force multiplier for the team. Also, someone asking these kinds of questions suggests we may be able to put them in front of a customer!