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The interivew with hiring manager involved some technical questions related to data science and machine learning, as well as a coding question. The first round of interview involved machine learning question. The other two rounds of interviews scheduled on separate days were testing primarily for algorithmnic thinking and coding skills.
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Research Scientist

Interviewed at Zoom Communications

3.6
Jun 29, 2021

The interivew with hiring manager involved some technical questions related to data science and machine learning, as well as a coding question. The first round of interview involved machine learning question. The other two rounds of interviews scheduled on separate days were testing primarily for algorithmnic thinking and coding skills.

Imagine you were hired by a hospital to analyze some of their patient reports. The diagnosis of each report consists of a list of disease IDs, while the body of the report is the symptoms and the medical history of the patient logged down by the doctor in natural language. Propose a model to describe the correlations between the set of symptoms and set of diseases extracted from the patient reports.
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Research Scientist

Interviewed at Salesforce

4
Aug 18, 2017

Imagine you were hired by a hospital to analyze some of their patient reports. The diagnosis of each report consists of a list of disease IDs, while the body of the report is the symptoms and the medical history of the patient logged down by the doctor in natural language. Propose a model to describe the correlations between the set of symptoms and set of diseases extracted from the patient reports.

ROC curve, find best threshold on ROC curve, , define precision/recall/F1 score, how to choose between two models performing equally well, explain logistic regression, explain random forest, tell me a time when you made a mistake and had to tell your manager, tell me a time when you disagreed with a co-worker openly and what happened, tell me a time where you disagreed with your manager and what was the result, tell me a time where you went ahead and did something without consulting your manager, tell me a time when you didn't have enough time to research something but had to make a timely decision
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Research Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Nov 19, 2018

ROC curve, find best threshold on ROC curve, , define precision/recall/F1 score, how to choose between two models performing equally well, explain logistic regression, explain random forest, tell me a time when you made a mistake and had to tell your manager, tell me a time when you disagreed with a co-worker openly and what happened, tell me a time where you disagreed with your manager and what was the result, tell me a time where you went ahead and did something without consulting your manager, tell me a time when you didn't have enough time to research something but had to make a timely decision

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