I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Dec 2017
Interview
I completed the coding challenge on HackerRank and got an email from the recruiter to book some time for an initial discussion. In the call with the recruiter, I had to explain my background and the work I have done in the data science area, and also to address my availability and salary expectations. Following this, I had an interview scheduled with two data scientists at booking.com. This interview was more detailed, I had to explain one data science (specifically machine learning) project I was involved. Then they presented a real-life business case and asked me how I would solve it from a data science perspective. This interview too about an hour. After that I got an email from the recruiter saying that it was decided to not further proceed with the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you tag a listing as value for money? How would you measure the "value"? what features would you select to explain the "value"? What are the assumption of a linear regression model? What would you do if the relation between outcome and features is not linear? How do you validate the model you built? Design and describe an experiment to confirm that the method you developed is a good one.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Dec 2017
Interview
I completed the coding challenge on HackerRank and got an email from the recruiter to book some time for an initial discussion. In the call with the recruiter, I had to explain my background and the work I have done in the data science area. Following this, I had an interview scheduled with two data scientists at booking.com. This interview was more detailed, I had to explain one data science project in detail and they asked follow up questions. After that, they presented a real-life business case and asked me how I would solve it from a data science perspective.
The day after the interview, the recruiter called me to let me know that I was not selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain one data science project that you have worked on. How did it impact business? How did you evaluate success of this project?
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Sep 2017
Interview
Few weeks after applying via web, got mail with an exam. The exam took 30 minutes, it included multiple choice questions, it wasn't hard but had some tricky questions, whoever has some experience with data science should be fine.
After the exam I've been informed I passed that stage, next steps were a phone interview with HR, then a professional phone interview with 2 data scientists and finally a meeting.
The interview with the HR seemed fine, I mainly talked about myself and my experience, but few days later I got rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question from pre-exam: I remember some logic question with overfitting and controlling the regularization parameter.