HR is outsourced to a team in the Philippines!
Screening call with the HR, then a phone call with the hiring manager followed by a 3-hour interview with the manager and his team, the following week.
The company seems low tier and the compensation is way below the industry average.
There is no separate sales team since the research team is also responsible for sales.
These issues were enough for me to be less motivated to engage in the interview.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
- Started with a 20 min. presentation of a research topic, followed by Q&A.
Q: Pseudo-code on shared screen:
a. find max in a list.
b. sort a list.
A: Look up the answer.
Q: 100 red balls, 100 blue balls, 2 boxes. How would you distribute the balls in such a way to maximize the probability of picking red balls.
A: 00 blue+ 99 red in Box1 and 1 red in Box 2 => P = 0.5* (199/200) for box 1, and 0.5*(1/1) for box2.
Q: 60% hurricane hit, 40% miss. Evacuate cost $30 million, and if no evacuation additional cost = $220 million. Decide if you would evacuate or not.
A: Yes. multiply the probability of hit + miss by evacuation cost, and multiply the probability of hit + miss by no evacuation cost. Evacuation cost will be lower.
Q: how to distribute 10 objects each with different weights and different monetary value in 1 bag such that the bag has max object value filled in its capacity?
A: A sort objects by mm = cost/weight and fill by max (mm). This is NP-complete problem.
