1st Interview: A day after submitting the application I was contacted for a brief HR phone call to discuss the position and to schedule a Zoom Interview with the hiring manager and other team members. In this interview, the candidate would get a chance to meet the core team and hiring manager and vice-versa. In addition, I was asked about my understanding and take-on how to leverage state-of-the-art climate model outputs to quantify the natural catastrophes in the context of Climate Change. Other questions being, how to choose a climate model out of many available modeling groups across the globe. 2nd Interview: After 1st interview, I was contacted to schedule a 2nd Zoom interview in which I was supposed to give a presentation on 'how to use future projection data under different climate change scenarios to quantify natural catastrophes '. Followed by discussion and questions on the presentation.
Analytical Science Interview Questions
173 analytical science interview questions shared by candidates
A technical activity, one large group project, and a few smaller interviews.
Why you want to work for this role.
Have you ever been creative?
What chemistry instruments have you used?
Please tell me what is machine learning?
How would you define Success?
Most of the interview questions are common technical and strengths awareness associate interview questions. However, a question intrigued me because it was about the reflection of what other people view my strengths.
1. I was asked about sampling designs. Data may be too large to fit into a model, so what's an appropriate sampling design? (More conceptual, less theoretical) 2. I was asked about data integrity and validation. Data cleaning, detecting anomalies, etc. 3. How would you handle missing data? What are some common statistical data imputation techniques? 4. How would you detect outliers? What is an influential outlier? 5. I was asked about model/variable selection process. 6. I was asked about technical skills: Python, Perl, C++, Unix 7. Why do you want to work at FICO?
concepts of Java/OOP - Inheritance, Static, Threading, etc.
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