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.
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.
Which role,data scientist?
And yoe
Are they hiring recently
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
I'll go first: "I want you to focus on doing good work and not on how much money you're making." Achchha aur mera rent kaun dega?
"2% is a good increment, considering the current environment"
Hiring managers are usually engineering managers when it comes to prod company, or some random outdated tech guy in some other companies. When you discuss collaboration, vision, ways of working with them in your interview etc. what chal...
Today I messed up my interview and a good opportunity for career and future. Ahhh 😫
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
