The interview process started with a coding assessment and moved into a technical interview. Beware that for the technical interview, they will tell you a description of a problem and throw you into hacker rank without a description there of the problem in hand. You need to listen carefully when the interviewer gives you the problem statement, or else you won't have anywhere to reference from.
Autres retours d’entretien d’embauche pour un poste comme Data Science Intern chez X
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez X en mars 2021
Entretien
I had 3 interviews, one coding, one stats, and one culture. Each was 1 hour long. Coding focused on pandas data wrangling, while the stats portion focused on causal inference and time series analysis.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation where you had to explain the results of a regression model to a non-technical stakeholder
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez X en avr. 2013
Entretien
I got a phone call interview arranged by recruiter, who got my resume from an ex-intern friend of mine. I did not sign anything and wasn't told not to divulge the questions, so I assume I can comment on what they were.
First I had to solve a basic probability problem that turns into using Bayes rule. I'm terrible at solving combinatorial puzzles on the fly, but when the interviewer hinted the Bayes rule, I kind of successfully framed it as a posteriori calculation. I made a mistake when computing the denominator though.
Then I was given the following question: given a 2-column file with user codes and counts, retrieve the top-k users based on a score that is a function of the number of times they appear on the file and these counts. My solution didn't match what I assume to be the "answer key", so the interviewer started walking me through the idea, but I didn't get there.
No coding was asked for.
I don't have the outcome right now, but I expect to be negative. Maybe some other time.
