Senior Research Engineer Interview Questions

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you are given a particular dictionary with recursive definition. you have a test set of desired output of your software, and you have to write, pen to paper, an algorithm in 1 hour and half. They told me that they haven't been changing this question from years! Sometimes questions were vague and not precise at all and I had to guess what people wanted to hear as answer.
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Senior Research Engineer

Interviewed at Nuance

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Apr 5, 2016

you are given a particular dictionary with recursive definition. you have a test set of desired output of your software, and you have to write, pen to paper, an algorithm in 1 hour and half. They told me that they haven't been changing this question from years! Sometimes questions were vague and not precise at all and I had to guess what people wanted to hear as answer.

When enumerating the features to be extracted from a 3-D surface scan of composite material for anomaly detection, Curvature alone was mentioned instead of Mean and Gaussian Curvature. I was asked why didn't mention the Mean and Gaussian Curvatures.
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Senior Research Engineer

Interviewed at Scientific Systems Company

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Nov 14, 2014

When enumerating the features to be extracted from a 3-D surface scan of composite material for anomaly detection, Curvature alone was mentioned instead of Mean and Gaussian Curvature. I was asked why didn't mention the Mean and Gaussian Curvatures.

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