Fireworks Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience — AI-Assisted Coding

Fireworks·Machine Learning Engineer·Sep 2026
Onsitemedium

They asked me to create a referral system that recommends a list of other users for any given user, using the network of all users. The network consists of nodes, and two users are friends if their nodes are connected by an edge.

Don't recommend current friends.

Base recommendations on mutual friends: A and B are both connected to the same node, but A and B are not directly connected.

Second, given a list of recommendations, return a score for each recommendation.

The score should be bounded, for example in [0, 1].

NDCG—I didn't think of it at the time...

AI was allowed: scoping plus AI implementation.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Fireworks
Role
Machine Learning Engineer
Rounds
Onsite
Difficulty
medium
Interview date
Sep 2026
Questions from this interview
1 question

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