Most Uneducated/Dumbest Thing You Have Said In a Data Science Interview?
An actual dumb thing I said was at my first Data Science interview at a top tech company here in Bangalore. Interviewer asked me about my projects, and me being unpolished, I said that I had done a regression project. So he asked me how did I measure whether the model was "good". I said that, "The accuracy of the model was high" Interviewer responded with, "...You know Regression tasks are measured with MAE/MSE/RMSE and not accuracy, right?" Lmao. You live and you learn. 🤡
I was asked about Gaussian distribution and I said I never heard of it and the interviewer said how do you not know this basic thing and then he proceeded to describe a normal distribution 🤦♂️. Nobody told me that shit had another name.
Here is what happened, the interviewer was professional and he asked questions I was not prepared for.20 mins in,my mind is scrambled
And then he asked me what 1*1 convolution is,I wasn't able to answer that(even though I knew the answer) I was completely blank.At this point if he asked about gradient descent ,I wouldn't have been able to answer it.
I was embarrassed, couldn't sleep for days.Because I was not able to answer 1*1 conv.
Lesson learnt: learn to handle pressure during interviews.
That is actually a good experience. It tells you how much pressure affects our performance.
Not Data Science Interview but in the analytics part I had confused Central Limit Theorem and Law of Large numbers.
I had a screening round with Google and they asked me what gradient descent was. I wrote a paper on it in my pg but was entirely blank during that question. Couldn't even remember a word.
Data scientist role. I have 6 YOE. Not sure if they r hiring now. usually the recruiter team mails you, I guess. u get more chance that way. I got a mail and a call from that team seeing my LinkedIn profile. And I messed it up
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@Jackietrader isnt accuracy is 1 - MAPE. You said it right but cudnt support your answer.
I was asked to explain Logistic Regression with math and intuition, I knew it but I bombed it due to the interview pressure. Pressure in certain amount is good but then most often than not it works against you like in my case.
Hi @Jackietrader I have 4.8 yrs of experience and working as an SRE. Started studying GEN AI and completed Google GEN AI L3 course. I am not able to find the direction to switch my role in AI and ML. I can spend 2 hr daily to learn new things and dedication towards it. It's just that I need direction. Can you please guide me where the job market is and how to prepare?
