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by z_ack 892 days ago
I can speak as witness about other interview, the interview of a close friend, skilled in machine learning related technology, in fact he applied for that kind of job. He received a video with instructions to do an online test registered with very poor, really very poor audio quality by a guy with a very very strong asian accent. I transcript the instructions to help him to understand how to do the connection to the test platform, etc and, men, I wasn't able to understand every single detail, so I gave that video to a friend of mine from UK, he told me that my transcription was more accurate than the one he did. Moreover, the test, IMHO, was bullshit , my friend has a math degree and master in ML related topics and they sent him a junior Python programming exercise, SQL related nonsense and other ridiculous tests like a script selected random questions totally unrelated to the job they was interviewing for ( or they was pretending to do). More than a serious interview that was like a candid camera prank.