I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Alibaba Group (Lafayette, IN) in Mar 2015
Interview
There will be at least 3 senior research scientist in Alibaba call you and each of them will talk to you about your resume and also possible research directions in Alibaba. They dig deep into the research projects I listed on my CV and asked detailed tech questions. Then they asked me to provide research solution for some problems they confronted in their work.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Alibaba Group (New York, NY) in Jan 2019
Interview
There is one round of phone interview and two rounds of coding interviews. The coding interview is around Leetcode medium difficulty level. The remaining focus is on DL ML knowledges which is aligned with the job description.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
String problem in LeetCode. Some basic list operation in Python should suffice.