I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zillow (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2016
Interview
I did an offline exercise using the provided dataset. Then I directly jump to the onsite. They speed up because I have other offers to accept/decline soon. (50 words minimum make no sense... This will prevent many people writing their experience... but maybe they think only long reviews help other people...)
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Question 1
Flexible questions about their current model and ways to improve stuffs.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Zillow (Seattle, WA)
Interview
First there was a phone screening and then they emailed a coding task to complete. They asked to basically code a function thats sorts data according to a certain criteria
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Question 1
explain how your code is efficient in terms of processing speed
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Zillow in Jun 2015
Interview
This is a phone interview. The recruiter is attached to data scientist role. First, she asks me to give introduction of my experience in doing data analysis during my graduate study. I give a detailed introduction of several projects, especially the competition I join in Kaggle. During my talk, she asks some basic knowledge about some machine learning algorithms, such as SVM, ensemble and regression. Finally, she asks me to do an off-line assignment which asks me to design an algorithm to analysis some data.
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Question 1
Ask me to explain why SVM need to maximize the margin between support vectors.