I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Sanofi (Boston, MA) in Jun 2019
Interview
Interview with HR, manager, and team members. The rounds with the manager and team members involved technical questions regarding statistics, forecasting, and programming. Interviews were 30 minutes to and hour in length.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you compare forecasts?
What is your loss function of choice?
How do you deal with outliers?
How do you reshape a data set from wide to long in R?
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Sanofi (Singapore)
Interview
Quite fast. Interview only takes around 20 mins, mainly asking your knowledge on R and ML. They will also explain what they do. The interviewer were quite nice and helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What your opinion on a certain machine learning algorithm (MLR)
Forecaster applicants have rated the interview process at Sanofi with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Forecaster roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Sanofi overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Sanofi as a Forecaster according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 25%
Group panel interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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