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One contributor notes that many interviewers likely tailor questions to the candidate, and some focus on participation in student projects to judge teamwork and organizational or time-management skills.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},391775,1790694872,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":19,"category_name":20,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":44,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":81,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":39,"preview_page_count":4},1099523885336,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FROM UNC ALUMS  \nMitchell Cobb (Avionics, Instruments, Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer at Blue Origin) At Maxar [Technologies, a space technology and intelligence company], the interview questions were pretty much \"so tell me about your research\", which was very easy. At Blue Origin [Jeff Bezos’spaceflight company] they asked me to do things like derive Euler’s equations of rotation starting from conservation of angular momentum with pen and paper. So, it was a pretty wide range. I think that most interviewers would probably tailor their questions to the candidate. I've also heard that a lot of interviewers focus on participation in student projects outside of the classroom in an attempt to judge the intangibles like teamwork and organizational/time management skills.  \nMax Gordon (Business Intelligence Engineer at Amazon)  \nMost of the interviews I had after grad school were more towards technical questions such as questions you might find on HackerRank or other technical interview websites for SQL or Software Development type jobs. One I commonly use today and is used in software development interviews is called LeetCode and Cracking the Coding Interview book. LeetCode has a variety of data structure and algorithm questions that are commonly asked in interviews which may be helpful for those interested in software related jobs. Cracking the Coding Interview is a textbook that covers similar data structure and algorithm questions and is a great resource that talks about the job process as well (negotiating offers, company specific questions, etc. ) .  \nLawrence Pan (Engineering Manager (Batteries) at Google)  \nMy experience is there are of course role-related technical questions, but also behavioral questions, such as experiential questions (\"tell me a time when you had to (insert conflict, dilemma, etc. ) ... \") and hypothetical questions (\"what would you do if (same)   \") . Also a hot topic these days is diversity, equity, and inclusion, so there may be questions on how you champion this.  \nRiley Buchanan (Data Scientist at Credit Suisse)  \n1. Tell me about a time you decided to learn something without being told to  \n2. Tell me about a time when your teammate or coworker didn’t agree with you, and how did you handle it  \nEverything else is pretty specific to data science roles, like what technologies I’ve used for what projects, what I would do when faced with hypothetical problems, etc.  \nDrew McAllister (Data Scientist at Afiniti)  \n1. General Questions: e.g.: Tell us about your research. What made you interested in data science? What makes you a good fit for this company?  \n2. Basic SQL table joins: Given some tables of data what is the SQL to get some piece of information?  \n3. Bayesian stats problems: eg: Suppose you have a deck with only three cards:  \na) One is white on both sides  \nb) One is black on both sides  \nc) One is white on one side and black on the other  \nThe cards are put in a bag and shuffled around. You draw a card and place it flat on the table, and reveal that the face up side is black. What is the probability that the face down side is also black?  \n4. General Stats/Problem Solving: eg: You are in a casino with $50, and unfortunately a bus ticket home costs $100. In this particular casino, the only game available is roulette with double-or-nothing  \nbetting options. Given that the likelihood you win any particular bet is less than ½, what betting strategy will maximize the likelihood that you get $100 and can take the bus home? E.g. repetitive bets of a small amount? One massive bet of $50? Some dynamic betting amount?  \n5. Math followed by Pseudo Code: given a problem, e.g.: You have two variables X & Y that are both uniformly distributed at random between 0 and 1. What is the average distance between X and Y ? Write down the integral that would solve this, and if you can, solve it analytically. Pseudo-code an experiment to estimate the value of this integral. What is th","cbCaiikoMKm9YgiQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiikoMKm9YgiQ","pdf",145349,"English","# Interview question themes\n## Technical questions by role\n## Behavioral and hypothetical questions\n## Topic examples for data science and quantitative roles","[{\"question\":\"What kinds of technical questions do UNC alumni describe for interviews?\",\"answer\":\"Technical prompts include explaining research, deriving or applying domain equations, SQL tasks like table joins, algorithm-style practice, and Bayesian statistics and probability problems. Some roles also include math problems followed by pseudocode-style estimation.\"},{\"question\":\"How do behavioral questions show up in these interview experiences?\",\"answer\":\"Alumni report questions framed as experiential and hypothetical scenarios, such as times you handled disagreement or conflict, how you learn without being told, and how you would respond to certain dilemmas. 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