I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Udacity (Los Angeles, CA) in Jul 2022
Interview
- Phone Screen - Some background, exposure to technical skills. 20 mins
- Interview 2 - Video interview with program lead - 45 mins
- Interview 3 - Technical Interview over zoom - 60 mins
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Technical interview
Part 1 - General Data science
- Google Colab notebook
- Install packages (pandas, numpy, matplotib)
- Download and import dataset (bike share company dataset)
- Provide a sample of the data
- Show a summary of the dataset. Be able to explain datatypes
- Explain interquartile ranges
- Extract distribution of a single column
- Create a chart with this data
- Describe the distribution of data
- Describe correlation coefficient
Part 2 - Machine Learning
- View a machine learning model and explain how it works
- View code for linear regression and be able to explain the math behind it.
Interview part 2
- Pick 3 words from a list and explain them to an audience who does not know data science.
Word list included
Machine learning
Variance
Version control
Command line