I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at BNP Paribas in Oct 2017
Interview
Applied online through their site and was very quickly booked in for a technical phone interview the next week.
The interview itself was moderately difficult, but was made worse by taking place over arguably the world's worst phoneline with an interviewer with relatively poor English skills (leading to a lot of confusion with regards to word meanings etc.) and an incredibly heavy accent. The questions themselves were relatively challenging but were made more difficult by the interviewer providing wrong information when asked for clarification, which he would then backtrack on a short while later (this happened multiple times).
It honestly seemed a very amateur operation and I'd expect much better from a company as large as BNP Paribas.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you implement a neural network for machine translation?
O screening durou aproximadamente 15 minutos e foram feitas perguntas fáceis e superficiais para entender meu momento profissional. Uma das perguntas foi feita em inglês mas o resto em português de portugal
Projeto em casa com perguntas de probabilidade (distribuições) e perguntas de código identicas a Leetcode. Entrevista com RH com perguntas típicas e entrevista técnica com perguntas semelhantes ao projeto de casa.
The pattern of interview was refreshing. Good questions. Thorough discussion of cv. Had a total of 1 hr with 2 Sr SWE and DS manager. Python, stats, GenAI.
Projects, scenario based questions. White board coding.