Standard HR questions - nothing that cannot be answered using a STAR approach. For example, did you work on this project alone or was this a team effort? What are the names of those who contributed to this project before you?
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Describe how did you contribute to your research group
Tell us about a time you had a technical disagreement with a colleague? How do you deal in general with difficult people? What was the outcome? Tell us about a time you managed a technical project? How did you manage subordinate and matrix resources? What was the outcome?
How do you evaluate your research during PhD program
The research lead was describing the take-home assignment task in a meeting. The task was to use topic modeling in order to separate documents (the arxiv dataset) into different groups, then use the discovered topics to create labels for the documents and create a classification model. I pointed out that this is "a self-fulfilling prophecy" as the classification model is going to learn the features that were used to define the topics. The research lead didn't say anything, and the next day the HR sent an updated assignment where the topic modeling part has disappeared, without any explanation. Just a document classification task with the original labels provided in the arxiv dataset. I decided to work on it, mainly to learn something about LLMs, and submitted my solution on time (code + report). The HR confirmed they received it and they will send their feedback soon. But they never did. Nothing for several weeks. I didn't bother to ask what was going on, my opinion of the company was already pretty low. I decided to share my experience in order to avoid other people wasting their time. I don't think the interview was some kind of scam such that people do free work for them, my impression is they are simply unorganized and not very knowledgeable.
Read 2 papers on neural networks.
Where do you see the field going, have you worked on LLMs/diffusion, what are differences between audio and image processing.
Describe your experience of using PyTorch.
We are looking for a student which can work minimum 1.5-2 years, would that timeframe be okay with you?
Human conflict you have dealt with?
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