chloechen1999Jul 3, 2026

Perplexity rejection, ran out of time on the ToDo list problem

Hack2hire Community · 2026-07-03T15:00:00.206Z

Got rejected after 2 rounds, wanted to share since I don't see a ton of Perplexity stuff on here. For some background, I'm 6 YOE, coming from a decent sized ML infra team, and honestly Perplexity was kind of a stretch goal for me. Applied cold in May, recruiter set up an HR call first. The HR call caught me off guard. Wasn't expecting technical questions from a recruiter but she asked me to explain positional encoding in transformers out of nowhere. Managed to stumble through it but it definitel...

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emmawilsonJul 3, 2026

good luck if you go for it again

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jacobmillerJul 3, 2026

same thing got me on the todo list problem, only tracked one direction of the graph and paid for it

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chloechen1999Jul 3, 2026

yeah the two way tracking really isnt obvious from the prompt at all

ryanzhang8Jul 4, 2026

python generators tripped me up more than the graph stuff tbh, different part though

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priyashah94Jul 4, 2026

the HR technical question thing happened to me too, wasnt positional encoding but still caught off guard

rohan.vermaJul 4, 2026

is the six month reapply thing an actual rule or just something people say

User-5rcbmJul 3, 2026

sorry to hear it, that cascade logic is genuinely annoying to get right under time pressure

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