I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Novartis
Interview
I appeared through hackathon event. I came in top scores. Even after this, I did not hear about any further interviews.
It seems like even though people come in as top scorers Novartis Hyderabad do not think they need to take interviews for them.
There seems to be something terribly wrong at Novartis Hyderabad, there is some foul play from HR team and technical teams of Novartis Hyderbad.
This is actually a foul play from Hyderbad Team, where they are on purpose not taking interviews of people who have done well.
These people bypass the whole interview process and cancel interviews or selections and hire their own or locals.
Hyderabad HR team first sent email saying Thank You for Participation without any interview.
When US team contacted me to participate in their knockri AI based video assessment tool as I was in top scores, it is at this point that Hyderbad HR again sent me email to apply again.
And after few days closed the application with status Application No longer in consideration (just like that)
Next day when I asked about status, they said send me your resume.
I mean this is like Novartis Hyderbad think we are fools.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Novartis (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Aug 2020
Interview
Worst Interview:
I applied to Data Scientist job, First round is Phone Interview. I just want to specify one QA
After having this, Felt why I applied to this company. I asked the interviewer, could you please ask questions on the projects which I did, he said no.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviewer: What is the technique to evaluate Logistic regression.
I answered Cross entropy.
Interviewer: no
Everyone I talked to at Novartis was nice and professional. Interviews were typically spontaneous and unrehearsed, but generally focused on relevant questions about prior experience and how I would solve particular problems.
However, the interview process dragged on for several months with no clear end or goal. Interviews were constantly cancelled and rescheduled. I lost at least 3 days work from cancelled interviews, and since I am a contractor, going through the whole process cost me over 1000e. The process ended with yet another interview that was cancelled at the last moment, followed by an email weeks later saying that I didn't get the job.
There are definitely some great people working at Novartis, but their behavior towards potential candidates is shocking and needs to be fixed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience in combining several different data types into a machine learning model?