I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ASAPP (New York, NY) in Sep 2020
Interview
Contacted by the recruiter.
1) HR screening
2) Immigration Check
3) Technical Phone Screening
4) Virtual Onsite(didn't happen)
The whole process was friendly. The recruiter was quick to answer, and the interviewer was warm and nice. However, I didn't feel those questions were balanced enough to be a good screener.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: What is the difference between ELMO and BERT/Transformer?
Q: How would you design a multi-label text classification model?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ASAPP (Chicago, IL) in Nov 2021
Interview
I applied through their website and contacted by a senior recruiter of ASAPP few weeks after.
I have been scheduled for a video technical interview with one of their researcher.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions:
Tell me about yourself
Briefly described about my research
Did I work with any pretrained model (e.g. BERT) and What I used it for?
Difference between transformer and LSTM?
Difference between naive bias and logistic regression?
Given a dataset of sentiment classification (gave some description, what are the labels), how would I approach the problem?
NLP Researcher applicants have rated the interview process at ASAPP with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for NLP Researcher roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at ASAPP overall takes an average of 19 days.
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Phone interview: 100%
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