I applied online. I interviewed at Agoda (Ramat Gan) in Apr 2017
Interview
The process began with a short phone interview which focused on my background (CV). After that, I had a two-week period to complete a programming home assignment (matching challenge). Following the submission of my solution I was summoned to a long face to face technical interview (~2 hrs) with the team lead (one interviewer). We've discussed my solution and several probability and statistics questions. I've got a negative answer about two weeks later, although I could tell that the interview did not go well beforehand. I've been treated fairly and politely along the entire process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Suggest two different estimators to the unknown mean of log-normal distribution (given a collection of samples X from the distribution).
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Agoda (Bangkok)
Interview
The interview process took extremely long and was badly planned. It consisted of three phone screen with the hiring manager and two other data scientists. It took weeks to move from a step to another. Even though, I solved all the riddles and addressed all the questions during the process, after three stages of interview, I didn't get an offer. I had the impression that they may had already filled the position or cancelled it. Overall, it wasn't a positive experience, the interviewers left somewhat of ambiguous impression of the company and didn't feel like people who was happy to be in the place they were.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some coding exercise and some general question about my past experience, not much on data science questions. Personally found the interviewers highly opinionated and slightly rude during the interview process.
I applied online. I interviewed at Agoda (Singapore) in Apr 2017
Interview
The one-to-one technical interview begins with a detailed self-introduction on researches done during my PhD. Following that is a quiz on various machine learning algorithms where you describe and explain the them. Finally a coding test using any language that you are comfortable with, and is to be done on the white board.