Approached by their HR, scheduled the first interview with the team lead, Then there's the take home task which were said to take 6 hours to complete, the task is a decoder based language modelling task with an extra dimension. Their HR messed up the time constraint, i was given less than 3.5 hours. Took half an hour reading the task and codes, wasted more than 40 mins trying to set up the local environment. Ended up spending just above 2 hours on it. The feedback was that my solution is quite reasonable, but they have only one opening and obviously the other candidate has been waiting for the offer way before me. It's a challenging task for sure but not impossible if proper time has been given.

The interview process was well organised and straightforward. The main technical challenge consisted of a timed take-home assignment with a total duration of 8 hours. Synthesia provided a cloud GPU instance to complete the challenge, which made it feasible to cary out some real ML development, not simply toy tasks.