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Q: When conducting a literature review where do you usually go for sources? Q: Describe your current research? Q: Have you ever once cooked or baked before? (this felt passive-aggressive) Q: If you need to extract arabinoxylans how would you do it? Q: How would you validate that an HPLC is producing accurate data? Q: Explain what a hydrocolloid is? General behavioral questions and why you want to work for Mondelēz.
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Research Scientist

Interviewed at Mondelēz International

3.8
Sep 28, 2022

Q: When conducting a literature review where do you usually go for sources? Q: Describe your current research? Q: Have you ever once cooked or baked before? (this felt passive-aggressive) Q: If you need to extract arabinoxylans how would you do it? Q: How would you validate that an HPLC is producing accurate data? Q: Explain what a hydrocolloid is? General behavioral questions and why you want to work for Mondelēz.

How did you account for <issues that are commonly known about problem domain>? Do you know if there are any disadvantages to using this method/algorithm/model? Can you explain in detail how <algorithm referenced in presentation code but called from ext library> works? How would you work on this code collaboratively? Are there any improvements you would make to the code before production? How would you make this script machine readable? What was your experience like working with <programming language> on <project in CV>?
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Research Data Scientist/Research Software Engineer

Interviewed at The Alan Turing Institute

2.6
Oct 29, 2021

How did you account for <issues that are commonly known about problem domain>? Do you know if there are any disadvantages to using this method/algorithm/model? Can you explain in detail how <algorithm referenced in presentation code but called from ext library> works? How would you work on this code collaboratively? Are there any improvements you would make to the code before production? How would you make this script machine readable? What was your experience like working with <programming language> on <project in CV>?

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