One 90 minutes technical screening with questions on statistics, applied deep learning, machine learning theory and a easy coding question on TF-IDF Got opportunity to do onsite interview. 5 rounds total Round 1: ML depth, the interviewer simply took the problem he worked on in zalando, forecasting and marketing intelligence. I.e. modelling the bidding of Google keywords during search for placing their ads to users. I had no experience with reinforcement learning, he expected multi arm bandit solution. Round2: Research chat with Director of Casual inference team. This was chat with director of different team to see scientific thinking. Overall went well imo. Round3: Coding round, had a dynamic programming / recursion question where i had to break strings in given set into smaller strings based on reference set. Eg: if reference set has {pan, cake} then break pancake in main set to {pancake : [pan, cake]} Was able to code the solution and interviewer was quite happy with solution. Round 4: Hiring manager round, it had mostly behavioural questions judging team skills in techincal scenarios. Also questions on how do I structure, test and review my code. Round 5: HR round, non technical behavioural round. Went well. Overall feedback: Coding excellent, ML stat ok however this is senior position and needs more experience. Very diplomatic feedback from the process that i don't appreciate.
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Describe tools and skills to solve overfitting?
SQL related scenario based question. Basic reporting questions. Python questions.
The usual recruiter and managerial interviews questions about ones background. Some ML/optimization questions (not entirely related to the job description) in the deep dive, and for the coding interview, there was floodfill problem. Rather easy.
Tell us about yourself Tell us about how you made a mistake once Tell us about your former two line managers Why us
- Talk to me about your PhD project, describe a technical problem you had and how you solved it - You are asked to quality control the 3D size of an item, how would you do it?
Calculate the number of vehicles passing through a toll
Explain Machine Learning algorithms like Kmeans clustering , Linear regression and algos specific to predictive modelling . How to choose no of clusters in K means
Case studies 1. You client is retailer store owner like DMart (offline online store) , the store's sales for softdrinks have done down 15% from last quarter. What can be possible reasons for this and steps to tackle each cause. 2. You are running amazon like platform. How will you choose your Top100 'gold' customers to whom you will give rewards like discounts and coupons etc.
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