[D] A funny story from my interview

Submitted by nobody0014 t3_11albpf in MachineLearning

I need to get this off my chest...

So I was interviewing for an intern position at a procurement analytics company recently, we had an initial conversation on the phone where the engineer said "spend classification".I heard it and ask for confirmation "spam classification?"The engineer reply "yes spend classification".

So there I was, for the next 48 hours before the interview, trying to figure out the scenarios spam classification is used in the context of procurement analytics (what I got was a super reaching scenario but it was fun).

During the interview, I was trying to talk about the projects I did that could be useful for spam/data imbalance usecases instead of a few other things that I did which are much cooler. At the end, I ask about why they are doing spam classification for context of procurement analytics and they asked where I heard that from. I was like you guys said "spam classification". Then it dawn on me and them that I misheard "spend classification" as "spam classification".

We had a laugh, I talked about the scenario I mentioned and talked about Siamese network but I still felt damn embarrassed about it since I could have been talking about other projects.

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SnooHesitations8849 t1_j9ssf8y wrote

I díd "multilingual learning" and the Chinese Engineer asked me "marketing learning". Luckily i confirmed it is "multilingual learning"

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DeMorrr t1_j9sww75 wrote

There's this one time where the company I'm applying to actually asked me to talk about spam classification, and so I did, as best as I could. but after the interview, they completely ghosted me. Man these food companies are the worst.

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ktpr t1_j9tj52p wrote

Did you get the job?

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memberjan6 t1_j9v3ay9 wrote

There was a time i was meeting with a new dev and "she" was the focus of his explanations, which were pretty long winded. I didn't get a chance to interrupt his monologue. I was spending too many cycles trying to go back in his words, while he was speaking, to try to determine who she is.

Years later it occurred to me he was being FANCY by calling his code "she" the whole time. I didn't pick up anything meaningful from his text consequently.

It pays to speak plainly.

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