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In een sollicitatiegesprek voor de functie data scientist (M/V/X) kunt u verwachten dat de werkgever vragen stelt die uw vaardigheden voor gegevensmodellering, probleemoplossing en programmeren onderzoeken. Wees voorbereid op algemene vragen die uw kennis van statistiek en data science. Stel u ook in op open vragen die uw creativiteit, sociale vaardigheden en formele opleiding in gegevensmodellering en programmeren testen.

Meest gestelde sollicitatievragen voor een data scientist (M/V/X) en hoe te antwoorden

Question 1

Vraag 1: Welke gegevensmodelleertechnieken hebben uw voorkeur en waarom?

How to answer
Zo antwoordt u: Gegevens vertalen naar begrijpelijke en bruikbare informatie, is een essentieel onderdeel van de rol van een data scientist. Met deze vraag kunnen werkgevers uw gegevensmodelleringsvaardigheden en achtergrond doorgronden. Noem de voor u preferente gegevensmodelleringstechnieken en bespreek deze, bijvoorbeeld voordelen als gebruiksgemak, flexibiliteit, etc.
Question 2

Vraag 2: Hoe zou u nepaccounts op Instagram detecteren die gebruikt worden om consumenten op te lichten?

How to answer
Zo antwoordt u: Met zulke vragen kan een werkgever uw probleemoplossend vermogen testen. Bij het beantwoorden van open vragen als deze, is het prima om zelf naar verduidelijking te vragen en een whiteboard te gebruiken om te laten zien dat u kunt programmeren en dat u diagrammen kunt maken. Deel uw gedachtegang terwijl u de stappen van het probleem behandelt.
Question 3

Vraag 3: Beschrijf omstandigheden die een lijst, tupel of set in Python vereisen.

How to answer
Zo antwoordt u: Vraagstellers gebruiken dergelijke vragen om uw kennis van de programmeertaal Python te testen. Ga voor het sollicitatiegesprek de grondbeginselen van Python, zoals lijsten, tupels en sets. U zou moeten kunnen uitleggen wanneer en hoe elke tool door data scientists wordt gebruikt.

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The company developed a new feature and perform A/B test. Here is the result Comments +5% Likes -10% Timespent +1% All else neutral How would you decide to whether putting into product based on the A/B test result? Any ideas?
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
Jun 8, 2017

The company developed a new feature and perform A/B test. Here is the result Comments +5% Likes -10% Timespent +1% All else neutral How would you decide to whether putting into product based on the A/B test result? Any ideas?

There are 50 cards of 5 different colors. It comprises of 10 Red cards, 10 blue cards, 10 orange cards, 10 green cards and 10 yellow cards. Each color will have the cards numbered between 1 to10. You pick 2 cards at random. What is the probability that they are not of same color and not of same number.
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
Jul 17, 2016

There are 50 cards of 5 different colors. It comprises of 10 Red cards, 10 blue cards, 10 orange cards, 10 green cards and 10 yellow cards. Each color will have the cards numbered between 1 to10. You pick 2 cards at random. What is the probability that they are not of same color and not of same number.

There's a game where you are given two fair six-sided dice and asked to roll. If the sum of the values on the dice equals seven, then you win $21. However, you must pay $5 to play each time you roll both dice. Do you play this game? And in follow-up: What is the probability of making money from this game?
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
Nov 24, 2016

There's a game where you are given two fair six-sided dice and asked to roll. If the sum of the values on the dice equals seven, then you win $21. However, you must pay $5 to play each time you roll both dice. Do you play this game? And in follow-up: What is the probability of making money from this game?

SQL question: given a table of interaction between users (user_a | user_b | day), find number of users who had more than 5 interactions yesterday (assume there is only one unique interaction between a pair of users per day). Product Question: A user satisfaction survey was conducted for two groups of facebook users (each with 50 k sample size). Group1: who had enabled certain login security features Group 2: who had not enabled these security features. It was found that user satisfaction with group1 was 30% lower than with group 2. Why do you think so? Comment on how the survey was conducted?
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
May 11, 2018

SQL question: given a table of interaction between users (user_a | user_b | day), find number of users who had more than 5 interactions yesterday (assume there is only one unique interaction between a pair of users per day). Product Question: A user satisfaction survey was conducted for two groups of facebook users (each with 50 k sample size). Group1: who had enabled certain login security features Group 2: who had not enabled these security features. It was found that user satisfaction with group1 was 30% lower than with group 2. Why do you think so? Comment on how the survey was conducted?

Given a table with columns country (with two-letter country abbreviation), count of requests sent, percentage of requests sent failed, condense down to this data grouped by country: country (one row per country), total count of requests sent, total count of requests sent failed.
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
Apr 29, 2019

Given a table with columns country (with two-letter country abbreviation), count of requests sent, percentage of requests sent failed, condense down to this data grouped by country: country (one row per country), total count of requests sent, total count of requests sent failed.

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