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Research Scientist Interview Questions
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Q: When conducting a literature review where do you usually go for sources? Q: Describe your current research? Q: Have you ever once cooked or baked before? (this felt passive-aggressive) Q: If you need to extract arabinoxylans how would you do it? Q: How would you validate that an HPLC is producing accurate data? Q: Explain what a hydrocolloid is? General behavioral questions and why you want to work for Mondelēz.
Describe your PhD project in detail. What was the most challenging part?
My interview was heavily technically oriented (based on the 1-hr presentation)
How did you account for <issues that are commonly known about problem domain>? Do you know if there are any disadvantages to using this method/algorithm/model? Can you explain in detail how <algorithm referenced in presentation code but called from ext library> works? How would you work on this code collaboratively? Are there any improvements you would make to the code before production? How would you make this script machine readable? What was your experience like working with <programming language> on <project in CV>?
various questions on basic ML and DS questions.
one hour scientific questions,
Why did you choose this programing language for this project?
PLL, RX link budget, OTA design, ADC/DAC
1. 2/3rd of the questions were based on the resume and my thesis. 2. Signal processing questions based on a presented scenario.
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