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Don't remember much tech questions. Overall, they were at most on medium difficulty. Final round was also technical. Probably a bit more difficult. It was more concentrated on infrastructural aspects - deployment to cloud, quantization etc.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at PwC

3.7
Mar 22, 2025

Don't remember much tech questions. Overall, they were at most on medium difficulty. Final round was also technical. Probably a bit more difficult. It was more concentrated on infrastructural aspects - deployment to cloud, quantization etc.

One of the questions at the panel interview focused on how to handle high-cardinality categorical variables in a model, especially when a naive approach could introduce noise or performance issues. The discussion was very practical and centered on trade-offs rather than theoretical tricks.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Clarity AI

4.4
Feb 9, 2026

One of the questions at the panel interview focused on how to handle high-cardinality categorical variables in a model, especially when a naive approach could introduce noise or performance issues. The discussion was very practical and centered on trade-offs rather than theoretical tricks.

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