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Applied Scientist Interview Questions
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1. What projects are you working on? 2. Explain one of your ongoing projects and your contribution to it. 3. How many lines of code have you written in various programming languages like C++, Python, etc.
An annoying leetcode medium problem on a laptop
Describe your research experiences; Describe your career plan
The recruiter asked about my background in machine learning and why I am want to switch from academia (currently finalizing my PhD thesis) to the industry. Particularly, why at Amazon.
Machine learning, coding and behavior questions.
Describe an experience of you cooperating with your colleagues to solve a difficult challenging problem.
Breadth - generative models, loss functions, tokenizers, LLMs, convolutions, residuals Depth - my research, applications and relation to other fields Math - implement SGD for a problem (derive gradients, update, momentum etc.). Derive closed-form solution to this problem.
Describe some criterion for model selection? Why is dimension reduction important?
You could be asked to describe one of your previous projects, answer behavioral questions, and implement an algorithm from scratch.
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