I was asked mostly about my doctoral work, my thoughts regarding the work being done in the new lab, and my overarching research goal.
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The questions ranged from basic topics like bias vs. variance trade-offs to advanced topics like LLMs and self-supervised learning. Usually, they will give you a hypothetical scenario and ask you to solve the problem using ML. Based on your answer, you are asked subsequent questions.
For the full time job, I was asked about a potential real unrelated research problem in a different field.
Specific questions about my research.
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Tell me about your research.
Avez-vous de l'expérience dans le domaine de la protéomique unicellulaire ?
What type of project would you like to work on?
Scientific topics and future career goal
Probably the most challenging was whether I planned to stay in academia. Because I am not entirely sure if I do, I didn't want it to affect my chances for the job.
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