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Asked about my background. Asked about which potential projects I was interested in from the list. Asked some basic questions on ML fundamentals (i.e. How are bias and variance related to over/underfitting) and a few more in-depth questions about specific algorithms (difference between GRU and LSTM).
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Machine Learning Research Engineer

Interviewed at Graphcore

4.5
Jun 4, 2021

Asked about my background. Asked about which potential projects I was interested in from the list. Asked some basic questions on ML fundamentals (i.e. How are bias and variance related to over/underfitting) and a few more in-depth questions about specific algorithms (difference between GRU and LSTM).

There were questions relating to statistical inferencing that in my opinion were tricky to solve while on the phone. I was under prepared. I expected these types of questions relating to puzzles/problem solving in an in-person interview with a white board et al.
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Research Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Feb 6, 2013

There were questions relating to statistical inferencing that in my opinion were tricky to solve while on the phone. I was under prepared. I expected these types of questions relating to puzzles/problem solving in an in-person interview with a white board et al.

1.) Python programming - algorithms (string processing). 2.) Python programming - data processing (array manipulation, algorithms, recursion). 3.) Machine learning - model training and evaluation, practical use cases. 4.) Details about my Ph.D. research.
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Research Engineer

Interviewed at Rossum

3.2
Aug 9, 2022

1.) Python programming - algorithms (string processing). 2.) Python programming - data processing (array manipulation, algorithms, recursion). 3.) Machine learning - model training and evaluation, practical use cases. 4.) Details about my Ph.D. research.

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