Netflix·Data Scientist

Netflix Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Posted Mar 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A hiring manager reached out first and told me she was interested in my background, scheduling a phone screening after I agreed to proceed.

In that phone screening, I was asked a small mix of coding, SQL, and classifier design. I had to merge two sorted arrays as the coding prompt, answer SQL questions, and explain the steps to build a classifier.

After I walked through logistic regression at a high level, the interviewer kept drilling into details—gradient descent, L1 and L2 norms, what happens with sparse data, and the difference between online and batch gradient descent. They also asked about word embeddings and sentence embeddings, which pushed beyond the basic “describe the approach” type of questions.

I felt like I did

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