J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Akamai (Cambridge, MA) en mai 2019
Entretien
Was contacted by HR over email followed by a technical phone screen with one of the managers of the team and finally 4-5 hours of the onsite interview.
The process was difficult but fast. Consider working on anomaly detection in real time to perform well.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Phone screen
1. If given a univariate data, how would you design a function to detect anomalies?
2. If the dataset now is bivariate, how would you proceed with creating the function to detect anomaly?
3. How would you compare two categorical variables?
4. What would the results of a chi-squared test look like?
On-site (there were 5 rounds with 5 different people- data scientists, hiring manager, engineering manager and director, the questions are summed as below)
1. Given a log file, how would you detect the most number of agents (the file contains- IP Adress, agent, timestamp and a couple of more values)
2. What is the probability of two students having birthday on the same day?
3. Describe what is clustering algorithm and give an example
4. How would you solve a class imbalance problem?
5. What is a sigmoid function, draw and explain
6. What is PCA, explain?
7. What is overfitting?
8. Given an array of integers and a target number, find the two indices in the array that will sum up to the target number. Code on whiteboard
9. The same question as above was modified to finding three indices in the same array. Code on whiteboard
10. What was one project that you failed and why do you think so that it failed? How do you think you would have improved it?
11. Explain a recent project in detail (more business oriented and focussed on thought process)
12. Did you face challenges in working with a teammate in the past and why?
13. Why do you want to quit your current job?
14. Live coding in python to load a txt file, find maximum, minimum points, finding unique values in the file
Tips- Use whiteboard maximum number of times to explain your approach
Pretty standard call with introductory call with softball questions around my experience with data science overall. No real technical quizzing or anything like that. Never heard back after that first call though
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Akamai
Entretien
Spoke with recruiter twice before having a conversational interview with hiring manager. She asked a few questions about my prior work and then general questions about modeling and working with external stakeholders. Mostly, she discouraged me from continuing in the process saying it isn't really technical work
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
I was asked about my experience and how I would explain a model to a customer
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 jours. J'ai passé un entretien chez Akamai en sept. 2020
Entretien
The recruiter was very nice, but kept my behavioral interview short and didn't ask too many questions. I did not make it to the next round because I didn't know one of the languages required. I was encouraged to keep in contact, prepare and reapply in the future.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
1. Languages known
2. Why are you interested in the role