Meta Data Science interview questions

1 hour phone interview: high level questions on approaching a data analysis problem 6 hour on-site interview with 6 different people Topics included: How have you dealt with a difficult person in your current job? What do you not like about your current job? SQL questions Coding on whiteboard: solutions required using recursion and hash tables How to communicate statistical analysis to non-technical managers Basic statistics: solving a problem with a two sample t-test, dealing with multicollinearity Standard questions on machine learning: cross-validation, regularization methods More time and weight was given to programming questions rather than statistical questions.