I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Rakuten (Bengaluru) in Jan 2022
Interview
Interview process was okay, more focus on resume and past work, basic ML questions and stats, advanced knowledge of nlp is favourable and will help you clear the thing, coding is also expected and you are expected to code without googling
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ML boosting bagging and the math involved backprop SGD How does a transformer work
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Rakuten (Tokio) in May 2023
Interview
The first stage was solving a problem on the Codility platform. Then after reviewing my CV, they invited me to the Interview. At the first Interview, there was only one woman, who is the manager. It seemed to me that she was not ready for an interview or was lazy to ask me questions. Instead of almost 40 minutes (the interview was for 45 minutes) I asked questions regarding the upcoming tasks, their goals and working process in a team, etc. In the end, she asked one statistical question- I answered and she said that it is correct. However, the result was negative with short feedback that I have less experience in Data Science, despite the fact that they already read my resume and invited me to the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself. Why do you interest in Japan? And one question on Statistics.
I have passed the coding test for data scientist position and I have got a notification for that. Following that , I also received another email which asked me my convenient time for the interview to which I replied on the same day with the time slots in which am available at. However, since then I didn't hear from them for more than ten days now.