In a research scientist interview, you will be expected to show that you have the necessary technical knowledge and expertise pertaining to the specific position you are applying for. Some of the common topics include basic statistical methods, machine learning concepts and case study analysis. Also, the interviewer will most probably assess your communication and interpersonal skills, which are essential for effective teamwork and funding acquisition.
You're about to get on a plane to Seattle. You want to know if you should bring an umbrella. You call 3 random friends of yours who live there and ask each independently if it's raining. Each of your friends has a 2/3 chance of telling you the truth and a 1/3 chance of messing with you by lying. All 3 friends tell you that "Yes" it is raining. What is the probability that it's actually raining in Seattle?
Given an list A of objects and another list B which is identical to A except that one element is removed, find that removed element.
Given two tables Friend_request (requester_id, sent_to_id, time) Request_accepted (acceptor_id, requestor_id, time) Find the overall acceptance rate of requests.
1) Provided a table with user_id and dates they visited platform, find the top 100 users with the longest continuous streak of visiting the platform as of yesterday. 2) Provided a table with page_id, event timestamp and a flag for a state (which is on/off), find the number of pages that are currently on.
Behavioral questions probing about fit
Write a function that takes in two sorted lists and outputs a sorted list that is their union.
They asked probability question: 1) The probability that item an item at location A is 0.6 , and 0.8 at location B. What is the probability that item would be found on Amazon website. 2). I have table 1, with 1million records, with ID, AGE (column names) , Table 2 with 100 records with ID and Salary then the interviewer gave me the following SQL script SELECT A.ID,A.AGE,B.SALARY FROM TABLE 1 A LEFT JOIN TABLE 2 B ON A.ID = B.ID + WHERE B.SALARY > 50000 ( HE ASKED TO MODIFY THIS LINE OF QUERY) How many records would be returned? 3. Give a csv file with ID, and Quantity columns, 50million records and size of data is 2gig, write a program in any language of your choice to aggregate the QUANTITY column.
Mostly situational.. guesstimate and SPSS related questions to mark proficiency in statictics and visualizations.
You have a table with appID, eventID, and timestamp. eventID is either 'click' or 'impression'. Calculate the click through rate. Now do it in for each app.
We have a table called ad_accounts(account_id, date, status). Status can be active/closed/fraud. A) what percent of active accounts are fraud? B) How many accounts became fraud today for the first time? C) What would be the financial impact of letting fraud accounts become active (how would you approach this question)?
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