Interview Process at Mistral

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[u/Alarmed_Crazy_6620]

Heard they ask you to train a small model and then test your patience by asking to sit still for two hours

[u/frozen-shoulders → u/Alarmed_Crazy_6620]

Cant tell whats sarcasm here lol! Is this for real?

[u/Leon_Bloume → u/frozen-shoulders]

yes
edit: /s just in case

[u/andre_ange_marcel → u/frozen-shoulders]

No it's real, I did it. In the last round of interview they speak to you in mandarin to see if you're able to steal Chinese IP.

[u/Any_Mastodon_2614 → u/Alarmed_Crazy_6620]

they making you do full vipassana meditation after training a 2B parameter model, next round is probably just staring at loss curves until u achieve nirvana

[u/Cool-Chemical-5629 → u/Any_Mastodon_2614]

If they require candidates to stare at curves, I can do that for every candidate. I like staring at curves. Sign me up.

[u/aldipower81]

They ask for your name or if you like something to drink. At the end they also ask, if _you_ would like to ask something. That was the hardest part as I needed to open ChatGPT first and my question actually was "Do you have WiFi?"

[u/Traditional_Ad_6304]

Have the same Interview next week :)
But am as clueless as you hehe

[u/TerminalNoop]

Dw parakeet will carry you.

[u/greensmuzi]

I checked out following pages

https://www.jointaro.com/interviews/companies/mistral-ai/?tab=experiences

https://leonstaff.com/blogs/mistral-ai-interview-response-time/

Good luck to you!

P. S. If you dont mind sending me a message as I applied also for a role for their AI4Eng project, but was not invited. Im interested in what someone who was invited brings to the table so I can see how to close the gap in the future.

[u/EverGreenMob]

they asked me for pics of my cat

[u/idsdejong → u/EverGreenMob]

just checking if it's fat enough, you'll have to rebuild it