5 rounds in total: 4 technical rounds and 1 human resource round
Four technical rounds last about 1 hour;
HR round last about 30 min asked about behavioural questions and graduation dates
whole process took about a month
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. different between PCA and LDA
2. why want to work at internet industry
3. neural network problems: drop out, regularizations
4. L1, L2 regularizations
5. SVM, KKT conditions
6. stochastic processes, markov chains, stationary distributions
7. feature engineering, sparse features
8. my own research projects, with great details
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Alibaba Group
Interview
Two rounds of phone interviews. The second round has a coding test. The interviewer of the second round is from the team that is related to my research area, so his questions are more specific. The first one lasted 20 min. The second lasted 30 min.
5 round phone interviews including one HR interview. Pretty good experiences. Learned something from the interviewers and interviewers are really nice. OK, that is all the things that I can remember. OK nothing more. Hope this counts to 30 words. Hope this counts to 30 words.
