Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 2 meses. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Rakuten (Tóquio).
Entrevista
After the application from the website, I received the usual video interview link described in other reviews, and two Codility assignments. One of them was easy, the other totally out of context (an high school trigonometry problem, which eventually allowed a different answer, but it was generally out of context for the role).
After a couple of weeks I was interviewed from one of their offices outside Japan. I was asked to prepare and deliver a short presentation about my background. The interviewer, during and after hearing the presentation (which he interrupted all the times), mostly asked about obsolete technologies that, even at the time of the interview, were mostly relegated to a niche and neither mainstream nor too useful. He was quite pissed off and not too polite throughout all the interview, and especially when he asked (the question was expected as it was written in the interview notice) which research idea I had to improve the company, which the interviewer dismissed it as "too early to be viable", and wanted to talk about something dull and not really cutting-edge to research.
Useless to say I got the rejection email after one week.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
One of the codility problem: find the area of the intersection between two circles, with a certain margin of tolerance, without any constraints on the time or memory complexity.
Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 4 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Rakuten (Tóquio) em jul. de 2022
Entrevista
The First stage: To introduce my own research to the engineer, and he would ask some questions about the research and the knowledge about machine learning or related knowledge, and finally he asked me to do a coding test with a shared screen.
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th stage: More like natural communication about the research experience or value. However, I received rejected after the 4th interview, and I have no idea about why...
I took the coding test for the pre-screening process and still do not know the result yet. After the coding test, there might be two or more round for oral interviews.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
They asked about Bob Adventurer's story for finding the minimum number of bullets that he will shoot?
Applying for a researcher position in RIT. The interview process was chaotic and confusing to me.
The application was through one recruiting agency, but RIT hiring manager was always reluctant to communicate through the agency for the whole interview process. Basically, I was not informed of nothing about the interview beforehand.
I got the confirmation of first interview 7 days beforehand. But it was the third day before the first interview, I was asked to prepare a presentation about myself and my past experience. The first round is a technical interview all around the presentation.
I passed the first round and completed a codility coding test which was fairly easy. I asked the recruiting agency if they can ask the topic for the second round, but until the last day, the agency still told me hiring manager gave no response.
Then it came to the second round, it was technical again, the same way as the first round. There were two interviewers. They looked nice but their questions made me very confused. Such as, one interviewer asked who is my PhD supervisor (I already graduated for a couple of years), the other person asked a detailed technical question which is not related to my research field. Not surprisingly, I got a rejection.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Coding test: fix bugs for a code fragment
Interview: who is your PhD supervisor