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The interviewer asked about random forest and how it works. When I said that each decision tree in the forest considers a random subset of features, he disrespectfully interrupted me and told me that I am wrong. Then he scolded me for giving the "wrong" answer.
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Fractal

4.1
Jul 12, 2018

The interviewer asked about random forest and how it works. When I said that each decision tree in the forest considers a random subset of features, he disrespectfully interrupted me and told me that I am wrong. Then he scolded me for giving the "wrong" answer.

They asked a lot of questions about my take-home project; in particular wanted to know about the reasons that I took the approach that I did. I could tell they were coming more from a statistical and economics background for the most part; while I'm more of an engineering and machine-learning hacker type standpoint. They also had a lot of "ambiguous" questions; by that, I mean questions about ambiguous business situations I might encounter in this position. Wanted to know how well I would do with ambiguous questions I might get from business leaders.
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Pluralsight

2.9
Mar 5, 2017

They asked a lot of questions about my take-home project; in particular wanted to know about the reasons that I took the approach that I did. I could tell they were coming more from a statistical and economics background for the most part; while I'm more of an engineering and machine-learning hacker type standpoint. They also had a lot of "ambiguous" questions; by that, I mean questions about ambiguous business situations I might encounter in this position. Wanted to know how well I would do with ambiguous questions I might get from business leaders.

Two tables: User actions: date|sessio_id|userid|event session details: date|Sessionid|timespent_Sec|userid 1. Identify avg time spent per user per day 2. Create a histogram of duration on x axis, no of users on y axis which is populated by volume in each bucket Product questions: 1. Wants to add a new banner on FB Market place which suggests to sell something on facebook , should they do it, what should be done to evaluate it ? 2. Market place transactions happen through messages - these messages went down by 10% in a month, should they be worried ? How would you go about analyzing it?
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Apr 15, 2019

Two tables: User actions: date|sessio_id|userid|event session details: date|Sessionid|timespent_Sec|userid 1. Identify avg time spent per user per day 2. Create a histogram of duration on x axis, no of users on y axis which is populated by volume in each bucket Product questions: 1. Wants to add a new banner on FB Market place which suggests to sell something on facebook , should they do it, what should be done to evaluate it ? 2. Market place transactions happen through messages - these messages went down by 10% in a month, should they be worried ? How would you go about analyzing it?

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