Alibaba Group Research Engineer interview questions
based on 2 ratings - Updated Sep 10, 2023
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Research Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Alibaba Group with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Before interviewing, I have a coding test and comprehensive evaluation. During interview, we just talk about my research experience and my publications. The whole process is not very difficult and so people can easily to handle it.
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Question 1
Give a self introduction and talk about your publications
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Alibaba Group (Shanghai, Shanghai) in Apr 2020
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I did two identical technical interviews over the phone as I was overseas. Both were around my previous projects and details of several machine learning algorithms. I really liked the project and it was a pity I didn't get it.
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Question 1
1. Explain what you did in these projects/papers.
2. Explain how certain algorithms work - decision tree, random forest, node2vec, adaboost, etc.
3. Have you tried more advanced algorithms (a few of them)?