A few cents from a fresh graduate, and you must read point 3b
As a fresh graduate applying for this position, I must write this for other new graduate or junior engineers.
The interview has two stages, and there might be more since I only make it to the second stage.
The first stage is a technical test which has seven days duration. The test consists of 3 parts, the first part is general questions, the second is a coding test for data manipulating, and the third is a machine learning question.
The second stage is about Cross Section Interview which the interviewer consists of HR and one technical person. However, the question is all asking about more into personal experience during working.
The question in the technical test has mistakes. For example, the question requires us to develop a web scraping application to gather sensitive information from the Internet and predict it. There is no way together sensitive information since sensitive data is hidden on every social media such as Facebook, Youtube, Linkedin, glassdoor, and even dating website. You might make your alternative which is to use open-source data to fulfil the remaining requirements.
During a cross-section interview, the interviewer only asks four questions regarding your bad experience during working. I believe they expect you to say some mistakes that I have made and how we improve them. There are two issues I must mentions:
a. The questions are OK, but judging your mistakes is coming from your personalities instead of first-time mistakes. Thus, it is a tricky question, and you might think a good story to tell, and possibly a tiny errors you have made since they are objective enough to view your mistakes.
b. The questions must be answered with your working experience. For example, the first question is the first time you started to listen carefully to instructions during working. I thought listening skill was developed during young, but why should we begin to have these skills after working. However, I was not aggressive enough to challenge the questions with them.
Furthermore, As fresh graduate, they are not interested in handling things during university.
3.. The overall interviews process is a little time-consuming. I feel like they are not putting you in the same space with them equally.
a. The technical test is seven days long if compared to another interviews process, but it's OK IF this stage is the second stages.
b. Why would an interview start with the most protracted process and time-consuming instead of the shortest one? For example,
imagine your scholarship interview process begins with a group project and the final stages with a primary screening one-hour interview process.
Imagine after conversion with CEO and then primary screening with HR. If failed, CEO time is wasted.
This arrangement shows that they save their 1 hour on the second stage and waste your seven days, especially on someone who failed.
c. As usually hiring process for interns and fresh graduates, they will your technical test answers only when presented, just like reading your CV and resume in the first minutes during the interviews process.
Tips on getting this job, I think the technical test should be OK for everyone. However, during the cross-sections interview, you are suggested to be more confident and aggressive, DO NOT tell the BIG mistakes you done since they are not objective, and they will judge your personalities.
