ML/Research Engineer interviews 2025

12 Mar 2026

Recently I went through a lot of interviews with some fancy AI companies (Anthropic, Deepmind, Midjourney, Recraft, Black Forest Labs, Runway, Suno), also FAANG, also a lot of smaller startups. I didn’t necessarily progress far into the stages for all of them but got some offers in the end, e.g. from Perplexity.

This article is an attempt to summarize my observations and learnings - the questions* being asked, my mistakes on different stages, how to prepare and useful tips and resources. Basically the things I wish I knew before starting the process and which will be useful anyway in the future.

*The questions are sometimes slightly altered to not spoil the process of the companies.

The MegaWash: How to compute capital gain tax in the UK

21 Jan 2025

Life in UK be like

Let’s say you are UK resident and at least one of these is true

part of your income is paid as equity (~you’re in FAANG/any other public company)
you ever sold and bought same type of shares back with <30 day gap in transactions
you traded the same stock in >2 transactions (i.e. anything except just BUY->SELL (all). e.g. BUY(price1)+BUY(price2)->SELL or BUY->SELL (not all), etc)
~~you exist~~
[random other conditions]

When…