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Applied Research Interview Questions
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Tell us about your research.
Take-home project: simple ML business case to implement and document; ML technical interview: ML basics like explaining different DL architectures, regularization, optimization, etc...
1. Talk about your projects
In several rounds, I was asked if my research can be applied to train/improve OpenAI O1 models.
Describe your previous research and what you would be interested in here.
How we can address the overfitting problem?
Situational , why you like company .
Describe how you deployed the model (we'd previously been talking about) into production and what the challenges were maintaining it.
Can't recall the specific questions and they varied by individual. The worst questions were from someone who grilled me on steps of analyses and actually said "pretend you are walking to your computer. Now tell me how you are going to analyze your data." Others were more innocuous but there was still an element of testing ad nauseum.
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