🎯High Priorityeasy10-15 minutes
Why are you interested in machine learning and AI engineering specifically?
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🎯 What Interviewers Are Looking For
- ✓Genuine passion and curiosity for ML/AI
- ✓Understanding of what ML engineers actually do
- ✓Clear articulation of your motivation
- ✓Realistic expectations about the field
📋 STAR Framework Guide
Structure your answer using this framework:
S - Situation
Your background and what sparked your interest
T - Task
What specifically draws you to ML/AI vs other fields
A - Action
How you've pursued this interest (projects, learning)
R - Result
What you hope to achieve in an ML engineering career
💬 Example Answer
⚠️ Pitfalls to Avoid
- ✗Being vague: "AI is cool" or "ML is the future" without substance
- ✗Not showing you understand what ML engineers actually do daily
- ✗Making it all about the money or job market
- ✗Not having concrete examples of pursuing this interest
💡 Pro Tips
- ✓Be specific about what excites you (the intersection of X and Y)
- ✓Show you've done projects to validate your interest
- ✓Connect your past experience to why ML makes sense for you
- ✓Tailor the "long-term goals" part to the company's domain
- ✓Be genuine—passion comes through in how you talk about it
🔄 Common Follow-up Questions
- →What area of ML interests you most (NLP, CV, recommender systems)?
- →Where do you see ML going in the next 5 years?
- →What's the most exciting ML paper or project you've seen recently?
🎤 Practice Your Answer
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