I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Merck (Pune) in Dec 2023
Interview
The interview majorly focused on core machine learning and our projects. Various questions regarding, Machine learning, Deep Learning and Data Analysis process were asked. Can rate the interview difficulty 4/5. The pay is very good.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What happens after changing the filter size in a Convolution operation in CNN?
HM reach out directly. He introduce their team first and then ask questions about my research experience based on resume. Finally let me ask questions. The process is smooth and the interviewer is nice.
I Had two rounds of Interviews but after that i didn't get any reply from the Merck team since it took many days for the process,for first interview after the call from hr it took 15 days and after that again i got the 2nd interview after 10 days
2 rounds
Phone screen and a panel interview
Tests case study and a little bit of coding.
Panel interview is about an hour. Ranges from technical, case study and behavioural.