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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General questions asking about science and technical skills.
They asked what my clinical orientation is.
Why do you want to leave your current job and what do you hope to accomplish in 5 years.
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.
If there is a coworker on your team who is not enthusiastic about the job, what would you do about it.
most technical related questions.
In the technical interview, we talked about the project, what challenges I foresee, how to overcome them. It was a very interesting and productive conversation.
Technical question to address how I would manage some potential problems.
For the full time job, I was asked about a potential real unrelated research problem in a different field.
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