Machine Learning Interview Fail

Interviewer: What's your biggest strength? Me: I'm an expert in machine learning. Interviewer: What's 9 + 10? Me: Its 3. Interviewer: Not even close. It's 19. Me: It's 16. Interviewer: Wrong. Its still 19. Me: It's 18. Interviewer: No, it’s 19. Me: it’s 19. Interviewer: You're hired

An interviewer asks a candidate about their greatest strength and then tests them with a simple addition problem. The candidate repeatedly gives incorrect answers but eventually says 19, so the interviewer hires them for confidently adapting to feedback, mocking machine-learning models that can be confidently wrong. EN: An interviewer asks a candidate about their greatest strength and then tests them with a simple addition problem. The candidate repeatedly gives incorrect answers but eventually says 19, so the interviewer hires them for confidently adapting to feedback, mocking machine-learning models that can be confidently wrong.

• @profunctor_io / 856 2018-05-13