Several of the questions were about why I was interested in the position.
Staff Scientist Interview Questions
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Why do you want to leave your company after 6 months?
Let's say you encounter an issue at work that where you don't know the best course of action, and you manager is not readily available. How would you respond to this situation?
Very basic since it was a entry level position. The most focus was on personality and will to learn whatever is thrown at you. They did want to know what I focused on at college
The Interviewer has a list of problems mentioned below. I was asked to pick one of them and code the algorithm 1. There are few points generated which belong to two classes. I was asked to code the logistic regression without using any external library like scikit-learn or scipy. I was to asked to code entirely in numpy 2. There's a question on solving PCA using iterative methods 3. There's a question on solving eigen vectors using iterative methods 4. There's a question on clustering using k-means on a psuedo generated clusters. 5. One more Question is to implement EM algorithm using numpy. During the process of interview and coding lot's of questions related to optimized numpy code. Ex he asked do you what broadcasting is ?. Mostly he tried to make me do vectorized numpy coding
Did I do qPCRs, how many years experience etc.
Where do you want to see yourself in 5 years ?
How I worked with difficult employees
Rate your willingness to travel
I was asked to explain my former experience and projects which I've worked on.
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