Data Scientist Internship Interview Questions

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Imagine you have N pieces of rope in a bucket. You reach in and grab one end-piece, then reach in and grab another end-piece, and tie those two together. What is the expected value of the number of loops in the bucket?
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Natera

3.8
May 19, 2015

Imagine you have N pieces of rope in a bucket. You reach in and grab one end-piece, then reach in and grab another end-piece, and tie those two together. What is the expected value of the number of loops in the bucket?

Given two tables with the following columns: USERS user id date time stamp post id user action action details POST_REMOVED_BY_REVIEWER post id date time stamp report the daily ratio of posts removed by reviewers out of the user reported posts (user action = report)
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Apr 18, 2020

Given two tables with the following columns: USERS user id date time stamp post id user action action details POST_REMOVED_BY_REVIEWER post id date time stamp report the daily ratio of posts removed by reviewers out of the user reported posts (user action = report)

Describe different JOINs in SQL. Having a categorical variable with thousands distinct values, how would you encode it? How to find linear trends in time series. How to find the flow in a matrix showing temperature. ...
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Nov 27, 2019

Describe different JOINs in SQL. Having a categorical variable with thousands distinct values, how would you encode it? How to find linear trends in time series. How to find the flow in a matrix showing temperature. ...

HR manager has asked me: Do you own a house? Are you married? Do you have children and how many? etc. The was no reason for asking these questions. I felt disrespected when i heard them. My enthusiasm for GSK melted like snow is a sunny day. I didnt have anything to hide, but i felt undermined and devalued.
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Analytical Scientist

Interviewed at GSK

3.9
Jul 1, 2014

HR manager has asked me: Do you own a house? Are you married? Do you have children and how many? etc. The was no reason for asking these questions. I felt disrespected when i heard them. My enthusiasm for GSK melted like snow is a sunny day. I didnt have anything to hide, but i felt undermined and devalued.

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