I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at GSK (Zug) in Oct 2024
Interview
HR screening, followed by a programming task to be solved at home and 2 technical interviews. The process was extremely slow and coordinated from overseas, causing even more delay in the system. After the last round, they made me wait weeks for an answer. By the time they replied with a decline, I already accepted an offer elsewhere. The technical part was interesting, but the process itself was extremely painful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard data science questions, e.g. explain the bias-variance tradeoff, difference between Bayesian and frequentist inference
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at GSK (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2024
Interview
1. Hirevue phone screen (30 min)
2. Hackerrank (90 min) on Python, REST, Docker, SQL
3. HM Interview (45 min)
4. 3 1-on-1 panel Interview with team members (3x45 min)
They all asked technical questions about projects and experience on resume and if i had worked with certain technologies (Spark, Cloud Platforms, etc.). Also had questions relevant to team fit and gauging your passion and interest in the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: How does a B+ tree work?
Q: Datalake vs Data warehouse
Q: Experience with query optimization?
Matched on Ripple. Applied. Given an extremely lengthy automatic HR Online Assessment that took a substantial amount of time, just to get rejected weeks later with 0 follow-up. I passed these HR OA's for every company I've applied to, so this must be auto. The next steps would be a technical screen. To be honest it is a complete disrespect of the interviewers time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
GSK OA: "Your colleague has a terrible idea you don't agree with, rank these 5 items based on what you'd be likely to do"
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