NAVER Place AI Coding Test and Interview

Summary

• Published 2026-03-05 · slug naver-place-ai-intern-coding-test-2026 · category "Hiring, interviews, and careers / Recruitment processes and interview retrospectives" · source article recorded in Korean and English.
• A retrospective on the NAVER Place AI development internship process: a coding test and an approximately 45-minute Zoom technical interview. I passed document screening for two positions but chose Place AI as required by the rules. On 2026-09-24, the article was rewritten without test questions and solutions because assessment rules prohibit disclosure.
• Coding test: defending against division by zero, hidden missing values, skewed data, and large inputs was decisive.
• Interview: the prepared concept questions were brief, while evaluation-scenario design took more than half the interview. The difficulty came from not having rehearsed the job description's tasks as "how I would design this myself."

Mentioned

• NAVER: the prospective employer, Place AI ML Engineer Primus development internship.

Connections

• Writing · Applications · NAVER Place AI Internship 2026
• Atomic notes: Simulate the job description as "how I would design this myself" · Be honest when unsure while showing the reasoning process · Coding tests reward robust edge-case handling; the happy path is not enough
• Concepts: i18n and multilingual support · k-NN and k-Means · Running a technical blog · Logistic regression · Rolling windows · Presentations