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      Senior Applied Scientist Interview

      13 Aug 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Autodesk in Jul 2024

      Interview

      1st Round (30 mins): The initial interview with the recruiter focused on background questions, behavioral questions, and discussions about salary expectations. 2nd Round (45 mins): I met with the Hiring Manager for more background and behavioral questions. This round also included a use-case problem and basic machine learning questions, covering topics like the confusion matrix, recall, and precision. 3rd Round (1 hr): I had an in-depth technical interview with a Senior Applied Scientist. This round covered a wide range of machine learning topics, from Linear Regression to Transformers. She also asked questions focused on data prep and modeling for a use-case (house price prediction). 4th Round (1hr): I was scheduled to meet with a Senior Data Engineer and a Senior Software Engineer for a coding interview in SQL and Python. However, this round was abruptly canceled just one hour before the meeting, with no apology or explanation. Overall, I found the recruiting team's behavior to be disrespectful and unprofessional. Despite multiple emails, they failed to provide any clarity on the interview topics. The last-minute cancellation of the 4th round, which had been scheduled a week in advance, was particularly disappointing and left a negative impression.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      What are regularization techniques? which one is good for feature selection?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      What is the difference between R_squared and adjusted R_squared?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      How attention mechanism work in Transformers?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Describe one of your projects on LLMs (RAG).
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      Senior Applied Scientist Interview

      22 Jul 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Autodesk (Toronto, ON) in Jul 2024

      Interview

      I passed the HR screening and the Hiring Manager interview for a senior applied scientist position. During the panel interviews, I successfully answered all the questions in the first session, verified by multiple sources. Yet, they canceled my second interview just 10 minutes before it was scheduled to start! They had 2 hours between interviews to notify me. I'm genuinely shocked by how unprofessional and incompetent the HR representative was. This is incredibly frustrating and disappointing.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      ML basics including linear regression, multicollinearity, classification, RNNs, LSTMs, details of transformers, attention mechanisms, and LLMs, etc.
      Answer question
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