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Moderate level questions on the decisions to apply a particular ML algorithm on a dataset, (What they're looking for is a reasoning that factors in everything like inference time, results examinability(XAI or SHAP) and not just what algorithm will be the most accurate on a dataset. )
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Data Scientist II

Interviewed at Fidelity Investments

4.1★
Mar 19, 2023

Moderate level questions on the decisions to apply a particular ML algorithm on a dataset, (What they're looking for is a reasoning that factors in everything like inference time, results examinability(XAI or SHAP) and not just what algorithm will be the most accurate on a dataset. )

All interviewers asked about my projects. So i had to tell the exact same thing 5 times . It is such a waste of time. I am not sure what are they trying to assess . It seems like the hiring process is like a random coin toss. They didn't ask even a single question apart from my project. Also, to me it appears Microsoft has so many people who have been with the company for 15+years. May be there are really smart but they didn't appear to be energetic. My only advice would be not all teams are good at microsoft. Few teams i interiviewed in past had really smart and energetic people.
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Oct 15, 2016

All interviewers asked about my projects. So i had to tell the exact same thing 5 times . It is such a waste of time. I am not sure what are they trying to assess . It seems like the hiring process is like a random coin toss. They didn't ask even a single question apart from my project. Also, to me it appears Microsoft has so many people who have been with the company for 15+years. May be there are really smart but they didn't appear to be energetic. My only advice would be not all teams are good at microsoft. Few teams i interiviewed in past had really smart and energetic people.

regular old fashioned interview.. not STAR type, tell me about yourself, what is your role, define your role, what are your expectations, what is your salary expectation, expamples of hard situation that you faced. how did you manage hard people, what is your style of conflict resolution, how do you manage team, how do you work in cross functional team. did you work in global studies
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Clinical Research Scientist

Interviewed at AstraZeneca

4★
Aug 30, 2017

regular old fashioned interview.. not STAR type, tell me about yourself, what is your role, define your role, what are your expectations, what is your salary expectation, expamples of hard situation that you faced. how did you manage hard people, what is your style of conflict resolution, how do you manage team, how do you work in cross functional team. did you work in global studies

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