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      Data Scientist Interview

      24 Feb 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at AllianceBernstein (New York, NY) in Jan 2018

      Interview

      This was a bad process on many levels. I had multiple phone interviews, all of which went well, but ultimately I took another offer as the process had dragged on for several weeks with very poor communication with the hiring folks. The first two interviewers read directly off of a question sheet and explicitly asked for one word answers to questions that ought to require some explanation. The second interviewer was explicitly looking for buzz terms rather than explanations of concepts, with a strange emphasis on confusion matrix evaluation terms. On the whole this was just a very corporate and soul-less interview, they clearly don't respect their candidates and I can't imagine that this would be a fruitful environment for someone hoping to do creative data work.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is bias variance trade off? Does K-NN require you to scale your features? How would you perform classification if you had to use linear regression? What are assumptions of linear regression? How would you assess your model? Lots of questions relating to recall, precision, etc.
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