1. Phone Screen: Question about background, reason to apply, etc 2. Round 1: small technical interview, availability, general question about the company 3. Round 2: Technical Interview about Classical Machine Learning (Decision Tree, SVM): decision surface, depth, etc 4. Round 3: Technical Interview about Deep Learning: Loss function, learning rule
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about a Deep Learning project you do? How can you derive new learning rules from a formula?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Proofpoint (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2023
Interview
Two rounds of interviews with data scientists; one focused on python/SQL and the other on ML systems. Both rounds were straightforward, pleasant and highly relevant to the role. This followed discussion with Manager and HR on pay.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how you would make a spam detection system.