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Why work at Vertex and other boilerplate questions Where do you feel you actually fall as a scientist (regarding skills and general field)? Some people had specific questions about my research, the process and where my work fit in, and the future of the questions we answered. I did have a series of questions about how I would tackle a specific problem related to this person's work.
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Research Scientist

Interviewed at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

4
Feb 10, 2022

Why work at Vertex and other boilerplate questions Where do you feel you actually fall as a scientist (regarding skills and general field)? Some people had specific questions about my research, the process and where my work fit in, and the future of the questions we answered. I did have a series of questions about how I would tackle a specific problem related to this person's work.

I did think it was interesting and fun that they asked; what is something you were proud of this year? The spirit of the question seem to aim for answer that was relevant to work but also personal as a get-to-know-you question.
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UX Research Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Dec 5, 2024

I did think it was interesting and fun that they asked; what is something you were proud of this year? The spirit of the question seem to aim for answer that was relevant to work but also personal as a get-to-know-you question.

The first question is to find the shortest path for a knight from start location to the destination location in a square map. The knight has two types of movement, which are specified in the problem statement. The second problem is to implement a binary search to find the target number in an array without redundant elements. The next follow up question is to search in an array with redundant elements. The final follow up is about how to optimize the code to reduce the total number of comparison operations.
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Research Scientist

Interviewed at ByteDance

3.4
Oct 17, 2023

The first question is to find the shortest path for a knight from start location to the destination location in a square map. The knight has two types of movement, which are specified in the problem statement. The second problem is to implement a binary search to find the target number in an array without redundant elements. The next follow up question is to search in an array with redundant elements. The final follow up is about how to optimize the code to reduce the total number of comparison operations.

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