Applied Research Scientist Interview Questions

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The interviewer was team manager and explained what his team is doing. After that, he asked me on my previous projects. He explained one of the projects his team is working on and asked me how to solve some specific problems related to the project.
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jan 22, 2017

The interviewer was team manager and explained what his team is doing. After that, he asked me on my previous projects. He explained one of the projects his team is working on and asked me how to solve some specific problems related to the project.

Q: Given a function with inputs --an array with N randomly sorted numbers, and an int K, return output in an array with the K largest numbers. Q: 1. How does GMM/HMM work 2. Name some dimensional reduction method; I said PCA and we talked a bit about how PCA works and what's the physical intuiation 3. How K-means work, what kind of distance metric would you choose, what if different features have different dynamic range 4. How GMM works (EM algorithm)
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Mar 9, 2016

Q: Given a function with inputs --an array with N randomly sorted numbers, and an int K, return output in an array with the K largest numbers. Q: 1. How does GMM/HMM work 2. Name some dimensional reduction method; I said PCA and we talked a bit about how PCA works and what's the physical intuiation 3. How K-means work, what kind of distance metric would you choose, what if different features have different dynamic range 4. How GMM works (EM algorithm)

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