I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Sep 2016
Interview
I applied for zalando's machine learning position this year, however i failed to pass the first interview that was launched through Skype. The company's recruiter contacted with me in 3 or 4 days after I applied and we agreed to have an interview after a week interval.
During this interval I prepared for a first interview session that would probably ask me question about my CV and background experience, however the interviewer started immediately with a research problem discussion and skipped this initial questions. He was polite and strict. The interview lasted exactly 40 minutes and I was dissapointed that I did not satisfy the standards of this company. After an interval of 5 days they answered me that I was rejected with a polite nevertheless way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- what is a support vector machine?
- what's the difference between a Support Vector Machine (SVM) and a linear classifier?
- why do I encode visual data and do not feed the SVM with raw information?
- what are the convolutional neural networks and how do they work?
- how would I treat a picture of a person that wear zalando clothes?
- how could I deal with a multiclass classification problem with 1,000,000 different classes?
- how could I possibly help zalando to improve their services?