There seemed to be a mismatch in alignment between what was expected as part of the role and the actual interview process from the very start. The company recruiters I worked with did not seem to give me a clear answer on what to expect from any of the interviews. Why would you ask irrelevant Leetcode style Coding questions to ML engineers and vice versa?

5 interview rounds in total: take home assignment, coding, HM interview, ML debugging, behavioral. The difficulty was just right and interviewers were mostly open and friendly. Unfortunately, ML debugging felt a bit more stressful and exam-like to me, which made me more hesitant than I should have been.