They asked me what did I solve/fix with a project outcome. And they presented a Python code and asked me to find 8 mistakes in the code.
Senior Scientist Interview Questions
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Not applicable as selective to knowledge and skill set
pretty typical: - interviews with boss & 2-3 other scientists, lunch + my own presentation about my career
What do I know about the biology of which they are researching Specific questions about my experience and how it relates to the biology they are looking at Why I want to leave academia
Questions like - what distance metrics to use when clustering with categorical data.
Tell me about your background. Why do you want to leave your current job?
How to deal with overfitting in training a model?
Not too many unexpected questions...some basic knowledge and some behavior questions
Why do you want to work for Verizon?
1) Mostly on random forest (since it was my project) 2) how would you avoid overfitting 3) What would be your approach if the data is not trainable. 4) Metric 5) Why do you want to join Target
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