I interviewed at Marks & Spencer (London, England)
Interview
The first interview ask about how past experience aligns with M&S values. The second interview is more technical with coding questions, understanding machine learning model, model metrics and problem solving.
initial conversation, talking through my experience. Asking questions about projects, my role on them and how i solved problems. Asked about problems i had on projcets and how i solved them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about your role on data science end to end project
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Marks & Spencer in Sept 2020
Interview
The interview for this role was a 4 stage process. I had an initial call from their talent team, then an interview with a Data Scientist then a technical interview with another Data Scientist and then an interview with the head of the team. The talent team was great at prepping you between each stage so I could prepare well. However this is such an overall negative experience for me because I got to the last stage and they told me the position has gone on hold. I emailed them back after a week to ask for an update and they said they weren't hiring for it anymore. Complete waste of my time and no apology or reasoning given. It was very disappointing after putting in hours and hours of my time and energy, I would not interview at M&S again because of this.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
If you had data with historical customer purchases and your target variable was to predict if a customer will buy something, which type of model would you train? If you were predicting how much a customer would spend which type of model would you train?