I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Take-Two (Vancouver, BC) in Jun 2023
Interview
I had an initial phone call with the Technical Recruiter followed by an interview with the Hiring Manager.
The Hiring Manager seemed unprepared and perhaps unqualified to be doing the interview. He ended it early after hardly asking any questions. Nevertheless I was asked to do a take home assignment.
The assignment was 4 hours max and involved taking an existing project and adding some features to it. It was pretty basic but was very much real world application, which I appreciate.
After not hearing from them for over a week I reached out. I was told that the Hiring Manager had decided they would not be moving forward with the process but was not given any reasons.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just asked me a bit about my previous jobs. Nothing difficult or technical.
Both recruiter and HM rounds were pretty smooth. Most importantly, they came prepared with detailed questions and seemed genuinely interested in learning more about you and your day-to-day responsibilities. However, when it came to the later rounds with the senior folks on the team, it didn't feel like you were respected as a potential candidate: questions were mostly irrelevant; they seemed to be distracted the whole time with needing to reply to their slack/emails; cutting you off in the middle of your sentences, etc
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Take-Two (New York, NY) in Mar 2022
Interview
Good experience with take-at-home test as the screening round. Post-screening, had an interview with Data Scientist about questions related to Machine Learning, fundamentals, and relevant projects in the domain. For me, the project-related questions were related to an Image Processing-related domain. Got another interview set up a month and half later but did not go ahead as I had finalized an internship elsewhere.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is K-nearest neighbors? Can you explain how SVMs work?