I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at FARFETCH in Mar 2016
Interview
Reached out via LinkedIn. Had a first conversation with HR followed by a take-home exercise. The exercise was quite extensive with two different data sets. They asked me to take them through the entire thought process of coming up the analysis, which I took for including the data exploration phase along with the final result plots into the report. The final report I submitted might have been a bit too technical and extensive as it was essentially the pdf output of my iPython notebook.
I didn't receive any feedback on the exercise but was informed a few weeks later (when I chased for a response), that they were looking for someone with more experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a timeseries of orders, how would you identify when a marketing promo was launched?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at FARFETCH (Porto, Oporto)
Interview
Foram efetuadas varias entrevistas. Entrevista inicial para verificar competências.
Entrevista técnica para análise de competências técnicas, entrevista com manager da empresa. Entrevista com a equipa técnica. E um entrevista final.
I had to answer to some personal questions regarding my carrer. The interview was done at home with webcam and you had to answer the questions through the link that they gave you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the reason you are applying for this job? What are you strenghts? Why are you the best option for this job?
- a first interview with human resources - followed by a technical interview with 2 data scientists, where I was presented with a problem and had to figure out how to build a model to solve it. I did not qualify to progress to the next stages.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I cannot reveal which questions I was asked, but I can say this: I applied for a data scientist position with a strong focus on NLP modelling, especially deep-learning in NLP such as attention models, transformers and LLMs. I was not asked a single NLP-related question throughout the entire technical interview.