I applied online. I interviewed at Nuance (Burlington, MA) in May 2012
Interview
I applied online and I was contacted by the HR with a set of 4-5 questions to reply by email. I sent them the replies but nothing happened and a couple of months later, I got contacted by another recruiter in the company with the same questions and after 3rd/4th time I was booked for a interview with 2-3 technical groups each working in a different city. The interview started with general introduction and later some questions about my cv. One group also asked me about the level of my familiarity with a range of skills (10 or more). I was told that the next interview would be face to face with 15-20 min presentation by me and I will hear from them.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Nuance (Montreal, QC)
Interview
I introduced myself. The interviewer introduced himself. Then I started to describe my ML related research and project experience. The interviewer occasionally asked me some questions related to my experience. After that, the interviewers started to ask ML annd NLP related questions. The answers he expected were general ones. No need to dig into details. After the Q&A, he introduced briefly his team, and asked me whether I have any questions for them. Finally, he asked me to take the next run of interview.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Suppose we are trying to build a text/topic classifier of Twitter. The classifier is trained offline. When we put it online, how to deal with unseen data?
