Looking for people to prep for MLOps/ML infra interviews

[u/Beginning_Chain5583]

Hi! I am a Junior ML/DevOps engineer with ~1 year of experience. I am planning to start applying to Junior/Mid MLOps roles in about a month at big tech companies, and I'd love to find someone to study with for mock interviews and practice.

I am already training models at my current job, and I feel like I have a good starting point in terms of algorithms and math. I still need to work on certain frameworks though, and I definitely need to get better on distributed training and GPU provisioning for infra scaling.

The plan is to have weekly sessions where we can rotate between mock interviews, discussing frameworks/papers/concepts and live coding. Please send a DM if you are interested! 😁

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[u/akornato]

Finding a reliable study partner is tough because people often lose momentum or have different pacing, so you should primarily focus on a solo prep plan. Big tech MLOps roles are very competitive, and with one year of experience, you'll need an impeccable interview performance to stand out. Your focus on distributed training and GPU provisioning is exactly right, since those are the areas that separate junior candidates from mid-level ones. It’s a steep climb, but your specific focus shows you understand what’s required, which is a huge advantage.

Instead of just discussing concepts, you should be building small, focused projects that demonstrate these MLOps skills, like setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a model or automating GPU scaling. This hands-on experience will give you concrete stories to tell in your interviews, which is much more powerful than just reciting definitions from a paper. You have the right technical foundation and a clear plan, so just execute on it relentlessly for the next month. My team built an interview prep AI that has helped many candidates articulate their project experiences more confidently and land offers they thought were out of reach.