I applied online. I interviewed at Intact in Jun 2022
Interview
It took a few weeks after applying to receive an interview. But the interview process was relatively quick (around one week). Everyone was super friendly and helpful. I recieved an offer the day after the video interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Python+pandas coding challenges, with interview questions on machine learning
After you submitted your resume, they will provide you one round of Hacker Rank test. When you passed that, you will get a round of interview with mostly behaviour questions and some technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. How would your previous employer describe you
2. your strength and weakness
3. if you have two project due at the same time, how would you handle them
4. explain supervised learning and unsupervised learning
5. explain overfitting
6. explain cross-validation
7. penalties in lasso regression
8. explain object-oriented programming
9. your project experience
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Intact in May 2021
Interview
1 hr online test.
1 hr interview with one hiring manager and two data scientists.
Behavior questions about the project management, personality, and why Intact.
Technical questions about the data science knowledge: basic machine learning algorithms, data cleaning, preprocessing, etc.
Case question about designing a risk evaluation model.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have two projects with the same deadline, but you can only do one of them, how to deal with it.
How to overcome the overfitting of the tree model.