There was nothing particularly unusual asked.
Statistician Interviews
Statistician Interview Questions
"When you interview for a position as a statistician, you can expect to be asked about your knowledge of statistics, analytical and critical thinking skills, and your ability to draw conclusions from gathered data. Prepare to answer situational questions that may require you to analyze a set of data and explain its meaning or design an experiment to gather important statistical data. Your employer will want to make sure you can use your theoretical knowledge of statistics to solve hands-on, real world problems."
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Strength, Weakness, Where do you see yourself in 5 years.
What is your favorite function in R?
Stat: They ask you related work experience, no specific stat questions. DS: Difference between linear and logistic model, how to treat imbalanced data. Deep Learning-related questions. F1 Score, how to apply, and what is the difference betwen recall, precision, etc. PEAK: When a task time frame gets shortened from 2 weeks to 48 hours, what would you do? In a situation, your coworker pulls you into a room and confronts you about something you didn't provide on-time what would you do. Tell me a time your idea shortens the research process. Tell me a time you fix an emergency. Tell me a time you improve something in your work.
Since this was a new position at the time I interviewed and the fact it was entry-level, they had no real technical questions in store. But Ad-servicing and SaaS are very important areas to be familiar for this company and it helps to know it well in order to succeed as a candidate.
Which do you like better, math or statistics?
Tell us one statistical approach that you like and why?
What software do you use for sample size calculation?
What do you do if you don't agree with your teammate or your boss? How do you deal with conflict in daily work?
Q. Why we hire you?
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