Application: Submit your materials online.
Screening: Initial assessment of qualifications.
First-Round Interview: Meeting with a recruiter or manager.
Skills Assessment: Tests or challenges related to the job.
Further Interviews: Multiple rounds with team members or executives.
Behavioral Interviews: Assessing your past behavior.
Final Interview: Meeting top-level management.
Reference Check: Verification of information.
Job Offer: Details about the position.
Onboarding: Integration into the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a Machine Learning Project You've Led:
This question helps gauge your practical experience and understanding of the end-to-end process, including problem framing, data collection, model selection, evaluation, and implementation.
How Do You Handle Data Cleaning and Preprocessing?
Demonstrates your expertise in handling real-world data, identifying missing values, outliers, and ensuring data quality before analysis.
Explain a Complex Statistical Concept in Layman's Terms:
Assesses your ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, indicating your capacity to bridge the gap between data science and business objectives.
Walk Us Through Your Approach to Feature Selection:
Highlights your knowledge of selecting relevant features and reducing dimensionality, showcasing your ability to improve model performance and interpretability.
Discuss Ethical Considerations in Data Science:
Shows your awareness of ethical implications in data collection, analysis, and model deployment, indicating your commitment to responsible and unbiased data practices.
They started by sending a personality profile and hackerrank quiz. Then they disappeared after I successfully completed both. I actually did the hackerrank problems in half the allotted time. It is kind of a bummer a great company like IBM would just have these virtual conveyor belts into oblivion set up but I guess this is modern hiring.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a stack for table reservations.
The other was like fizzbuzz or something slightly less simple.
There was an initial screening, after that a call with HR and if everything works you can start with the real interviews with the managers of your department. About 2 or 3.