I had an initial call with a recruiter from the US which did, in my opinion, a terrific job at selling the company and the role. The first interview happened with a Manager (covering), and should have covered my CV and technicalities of it. The format turned out to be different, and the manager awkwardly refused to hear about my experience so she could ask pre-prepared silly questions that felt ChatGPT-generated, such as “what do you think it’s the data challenge at PlayStation?”. The more technical we got was with “if we have a classifier, for example, a decision tree, how do you train it?”, where a dummy explanation (I think) was expected, and vocabulary like “loss/error function” seemed overkill. Generally felt very immaturely business focused, deviating a lot from the technical excitement I had built up, as in theory they were looking for someone with technical knowledge on, for example, Transformers. Got a terribly bad and disappointing impression given that we are talking about Playstation. Asking “Do you think AI influences our ways of working? has it changed yours?” was the final nail in the coffin

I first had a call with the hiring manager, and it was mostly talking about my past experience. There were some hypothetical questions about ML modeling and going through my thought process on that. After that it was a technical screen on SQL, Python, ML, stats, and general modeling.