First a chat with the recruiter and then a interview with technical questions with the two heads of the AI/quantum computing research division. I don’t know the rest of the process because I didn’t make it further:
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Extremely technical obscure questions related to what they in particular have recently read.
Eg questions on “efficient” ways to reduce the dimensionality of a very large weight matrix. Answer isn’t even LORA rank decomposition it’s randomly removing rows and columns. Why can this work? Some obscure mathematics field I’d not heard of even with a masters in physics and PhD in ML. Very frustrating imo, but in fairness it does reflect what they were looking for.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at HSBC (Hong Kong)
Interview
Firstly I got a call from HR and they sent me a personal questionnaire to understand me. I already failed this although that was about personal preference questions. I suppose the question form wants to find someone analytic rather than others.
