I applied through college or university. I interviewed at TD (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2025
Interview
For summer internship position, 30 minute interview with HR team, mostly behavorial & situational, no technical questions. The interviewer most likely ask question on previous work not asking technical question related to the job
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have experience in Q language? (Based on what they say this is the internal langauge they use)
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at TD (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2021
Interview
If your resume makes it past, then you have to complete data analysis and machine learning case. For me it took around 15 hours. If your case makes the cut, then there is a 1.5 hour interview about your skills, past experiences, and also describe each part of your case in great detail. That was it,.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is hyper parameter tuning?
What are some hyper parameter algorithms?
Describe linear regression to a 10 year old.
What are some ways to deal with an unbalanced data set?
What are some name of loss functions and what do they do?
What is mean squared error?
Describe how a convolution neural network differs from an artificial neural networks.
What are some applications LSTMs?
Lots and lots of questions about the data science case written earlier.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at TD in Nov 2019
Interview
One round phone interview with 2 team members: mostly basic behavioral questions and asking for details of the previous projects. Also, there were questions on hobbies and personality traits to see if you could fit in the team culture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are your hobbies? Can you talk about project XXX?
Data Science Intern applicants have rated the interview process at TD with 2 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 69.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Science Intern roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at TD overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at TD as a Data Science Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Drug test: 25%
IQ intelligence test: 25%
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