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Phew, what company asked this and for what role? The people want to know.

It was a research scientist role. The company I will omit because frankly I heard multiple companies doing it (to the point that at least two sources recommended to me to read minGPT before interviewing, so it is "invert binary tree" but for RS interviews).

Honestly it will be a miracle if an indie game dev like me gets the job of a machine learning research scientist. Can't say they asked the wrong questions.

why were they interviewing game devs for that role?

Sorry it was a bit half joking. I am an indie game dev but at the same time I also had prior experience doing ML engineering.

FWIW some types of game devs are actually versatile people for ML engineering. They can write low level code; they can manipulate bitmaps; they have keen-enough eyes to tell you something is wrong with your image dataset. I don't think game devs are a bad choice.

Scientist jobs are hard to get without a PhD (PhD dropout here)

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