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      Data Scientist Interview

      15 Jun 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2013

      Interview

      Applied online and received an email from recruiter after 3 days asking if I am available to chat about my background. After I talked to the recruiter, we arranged for two phone screens. The first one was mainly coding. The interviewer had a very strong Chinese accent and I couldn't understand him most of the time. He had a difficulty explaining the problem he proposed to solve (putting a number of courses into a graph and sort them according to the fact that some courses needs to be taken before other ones). However, he tried to help. After the first interview, I felt that I am overqualified for the job as the interviewer asked very basic questions and I felt that they are looking for someone with BSc or MSc (not PhD). I emailed the recruiter with my impression and asked for what exactly they are looking for. She did not answer me and I received the second phone screen on the next day as scheduled. The second phone screen was more about the overall picture and how would you use Map/Reduce to tackle a problem (splitting a very large graph into small ones and parallelize the computation of edges according to the fast/dynamic change of data). And some genreal machine learning questions. This interviewer was easier to understand. After two days of the second phone screen, I received an email form the recruiter explaining that they decided to proceed with other candidates who seems to be better match (as I expected after the 1st interview).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      More or less about Graphs and Map/Reduce
      Answer question
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