xAI interview was chaotic in the best way: 1. 2 hour technical deep dive with a research lead. no structure. just whiteboarding ideas about scaling laws, mixture of experts, and inference optimization 2. coding: implement flash attention (simplified) 3. product vision: 30 min conversation about what products should be built on top of grok 4. team lunch. everyone was talking about papers from last week the 2 hour unstructured session was either brilliant or insane. if you thrive in ambiguity youll love it

xAI research engineer - elon's AI company

xAI interview was chaotic in the best way: 1.

a 2 hour unstructured whiteboard session sounds exhausting but also like the best way to evaluate research engineers

implement flash attention in an interview is INSANE. the whole point of flash attention is that its incredibly tricky to implement correctly

"chaotic in the best way" describes everything elon does lol