Associate Scientist Ii Interview Questions

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The only "classic" interview question I got was, "how would you handle a coworker who you knew was wrong about something important?" Other than that, they were interested in exploring the extent of my skill set and what kind of person I am – they wanted to make sure I would be a good fit for the team.
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Senior Scientist II/III

Interviewed at AbbVie

3.9
Dec 4, 2015

The only "classic" interview question I got was, "how would you handle a coworker who you knew was wrong about something important?" Other than that, they were interested in exploring the extent of my skill set and what kind of person I am – they wanted to make sure I would be a good fit for the team.

First round: - phone/video interview with one person. - Asked the typical DS interview questions (overfitting/cross validation), talked about my ML experiences. - Asked a basic coding question: given an animal, print out the noise it makes. Basic things like polymorphism/inheritance, briefly touched on string similarity Second round in person (5 interviews): - Lots of leadership principle/behavioral questions - One coding interview. Given a database of book titles and number of copies sold, how do you identify the top N most-sold books. Basic algorithm/data structures of things like priority queues/heaps, space-time complexity analysis, live-coding. Even if you miss the correct data structure, they provide some hints along the way so you can complete the problem - Multiple DS interviews, from things like typical DS interview questions and your ML experience, to an applied DS question (deduplicating transactions, how would you solve this problem, how would you build/train/score a model, how would you scale it)
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Applied Scientist II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 25, 2021

First round: - phone/video interview with one person. - Asked the typical DS interview questions (overfitting/cross validation), talked about my ML experiences. - Asked a basic coding question: given an animal, print out the noise it makes. Basic things like polymorphism/inheritance, briefly touched on string similarity Second round in person (5 interviews): - Lots of leadership principle/behavioral questions - One coding interview. Given a database of book titles and number of copies sold, how do you identify the top N most-sold books. Basic algorithm/data structures of things like priority queues/heaps, space-time complexity analysis, live-coding. Even if you miss the correct data structure, they provide some hints along the way so you can complete the problem - Multiple DS interviews, from things like typical DS interview questions and your ML experience, to an applied DS question (deduplicating transactions, how would you solve this problem, how would you build/train/score a model, how would you scale it)

On the phone screen, I was asked questions typical of the area of applied science I applied. Since the phone screening was easy, I did not prepare a lot for the onsite. However, at the on-site, they asked me way deeper questions than I expected and I failed to answer some of them.
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Applied Scientist II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
May 3, 2025

On the phone screen, I was asked questions typical of the area of applied science I applied. Since the phone screening was easy, I did not prepare a lot for the onsite. However, at the on-site, they asked me way deeper questions than I expected and I failed to answer some of them.

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