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Asked me about product metrics. They insist they are just looking for your "thought process", but the interviewers are inexperienced and thus looking at a check box on the side. My interviewer kept prodding me to cover a very specific metric and didn't care at all about the framework I outlined. The specific metric they finally disclosed would have given a very biased outcome - something they would have known if they had any experience at all. 2 yrs working in 1 company and a PhD that doesn't cover any true business scenarios doesn't qualify you to interview an industry veteran.
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Data Science Manager

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
Sep 22, 2020

Asked me about product metrics. They insist they are just looking for your "thought process", but the interviewers are inexperienced and thus looking at a check box on the side. My interviewer kept prodding me to cover a very specific metric and didn't care at all about the framework I outlined. The specific metric they finally disclosed would have given a very biased outcome - something they would have known if they had any experience at all. 2 yrs working in 1 company and a PhD that doesn't cover any true business scenarios doesn't qualify you to interview an industry veteran.

When I asked about what to optimized and also try to give a direction, he give me some hint with vague idea. Neverthless, he seems how to solve a high permutation / combination problem, where I try to through some of the ideas to reduce the dimension or go by store wise. The HM seems interests to solve this in real-time, when I asked about can a physical store be re-arrange in real time, got the response like solve in real time, change the physical store in a weeks time, not able to digest what we are solving, nor have any clue what we are trying to solve.
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Data Science Manager

Interviewed at Walmart Global Tech

3.6★
Nov 1, 2022

When I asked about what to optimized and also try to give a direction, he give me some hint with vague idea. Neverthless, he seems how to solve a high permutation / combination problem, where I try to through some of the ideas to reduce the dimension or go by store wise. The HM seems interests to solve this in real-time, when I asked about can a physical store be re-arrange in real time, got the response like solve in real time, change the physical store in a weeks time, not able to digest what we are solving, nor have any clue what we are trying to solve.

asked some machine learning and statistics questions. Like what is GBM? How does it work. Provide detail of the algorithm and how you assess it accuracy. The also asked on describing steps to building a model. Like what is your dependent variable, what is the definition, why you pick this definition.
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Director Data Science

Interviewed at American Express

4.1★
Jul 4, 2017

asked some machine learning and statistics questions. Like what is GBM? How does it work. Provide detail of the algorithm and how you assess it accuracy. The also asked on describing steps to building a model. Like what is your dependent variable, what is the definition, why you pick this definition.

Had an HR round and then a technical round where we talked about projects and then a case study. The issue is that the case study is a tough problem that they are dealing with; that is, something they have a whole team dedicated to and have been thinking about for months to years. Yet you are supposed to solve it in just a few minutes! So it really is not a fair assessment but that's how all tech interviews are today. One thing was the interviewer kept interrupting and didn't let me finish so I just figured he was trying to drive me toward to a set of exploratory questions on the case study. I did answer every question but got turned down.
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Data Science Manager - Machine Learning

Interviewed at Wayfair

3.1★
Nov 4, 2019

Had an HR round and then a technical round where we talked about projects and then a case study. The issue is that the case study is a tough problem that they are dealing with; that is, something they have a whole team dedicated to and have been thinking about for months to years. Yet you are supposed to solve it in just a few minutes! So it really is not a fair assessment but that's how all tech interviews are today. One thing was the interviewer kept interrupting and didn't let me finish so I just figured he was trying to drive me toward to a set of exploratory questions on the case study. I did answer every question but got turned down.

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