I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Citi (Dublin, Dublin) in Apr 2020
Interview
After applying online, I got an invite for an online test after almost a month. It involved general aptitude and logical ability questions. Thereafter, an hour-long phone interview was scheduled with two Lead Data Scientists from Citi Innovation Labs, Dublin. This was more of a conversation rather than an interview. They skimmed through my resume and asked related questions on my skills and projects. It felt like they were satisfied and would want me to invite me for further rounds. That's pretty much it. I got no response from them even after a month. The HR also stopped replying to my emails and I was only able to contact him via a third person who scheduled my online test. Got the templated rejection email without any feedback a few weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Can you talk a bit about your projects and the challenges you faced while working on them?
Three rounds of interview in total. The first interview focus on more technical or role- specific questions. The second round is case study presentation. Conversations shift toward company values, leadership alignment, and cultural fit when you near the final stage
3 rounds, 2 technical and 1 hr
Technical on basic ml and rag based
Decision trees, random forest,etc and classic rag structure, vector db, llm, etc
What the heck why is it asking so many words
Two technical round and a hr round. Asked questions from resume, ml projects, gen ai, llm, rag etc. Asked if I have done some courses in ml and dl. Before the interviews there was an online test consisting of aptitute and reasoning questions along with data interpretation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is batch normalisation? What are ways to optimise a reinforcement learning algorithm?
