I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY)
Interview
Had a phone interview with a senior data scientist. I was asked to go through my resume and describe my projects. Was then asked a simple probability and statistics question with 2 parts. The interviewer then sent me a link to an interactive coding page and asked me to write R codes to solve the previous questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe one of your projects and how much responsibilities you took in delivering the results.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jul 2017
Interview
3 interviews plus a lunch interview. Interviewers were nice. They were interested in the mathematical side of modeling, statistics, and experimentation with large-scale data. The interviewers try to figure out how you think and if you would be a good fit.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in May 2017
Interview
I was reached out by a recruiter. One round of phone technical screening, very easy statistical questions and no coding questions...not even SQL or algorithm questions. Onsite interviews after two weeks, most of the time are chatting and introduce you their work and ask you, as a data scientist, what things you help in their projects?
I agree with other reviews and am very doubtful how they can select a qualified candidate based on the easy interview questions?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you detect if a new observation is outlier? What is bias-variance trade off ?