J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Poolside.ai en avr. 2026
Entretien
Pleasant process. No leetcode-like coding questions, very research oriented.
First, a screening call with the engineering lead, then two technical interviews followed by some culture fit calls. All coordinated by a hiring manager.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Very hard to generalize I think both technical interviews are tailored to the applicant.
First one is generally about the subject you would handle as a member of engineering, second one an overview of what the team you would be joining.
In my case this was questions with a researcher, discussion like around multiple aspects of the synthetic data generation in the first interview, and about the same around pre-training in the second.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Poolside.ai (Texas City, TX) en mai 2026
Entretien
I had a the initial interview which was a just a conversation and had very little structure. The interviewer was very friendly and though we didn't get into technical questions during this round, I left feeling like I would likely get taken to next steps. Nope, didn't even get through my weekend without bad news. Completely at a loss as to why they rejected me after a positive first interview.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Poolside.ai en mars 2026
Entretien
The entire process was very disappointing and ill-organized. The online job posting does not show any difference between roles (senior, junior etc...) After I applied online, I got scheduled in an initial call with a software engineer. He was clearly not happy to be hear, very grumpy and didn't talk a lot. I'm looking for a staff position but he was clearly more junior than me and wasn't able to answer any of my questions about the role or the expected compensation. To this day, neither the job description nor the initial call was able to let me understand if they're recruiting for a junior, a senior or a staff, and whether the compensation is 50k or 200k.
