Recruiter initiated contacted without application from me. Head of Singapore research unit did a phone interview for 30 minutes and talked about some of the applications they do in Singapore. Then they scheduled an hour of interview with presentation review by a two person panel including a senior data scientist who was knowledgable in traditional machine learning. The worst part of the interview was a the next presentation where the entire presentation was to be repeated to their overlords sitting in Japan over video conference. They barely understood anything I was talking since they didn't get much of the English, waited till I finished and asked their pre-prepared questions. The questions were redundant and unconnected to what I had presented. It also showed that they were completely out of touch with contemporary research in AI and ML. It showed that they were looking for some code monkeys to replicate stuff that was hot in America a few years back. I had heard of this a few years back. I was quite disinterested in the whole interaction although I talked a lot and it waned as the presentation dragged on for more than an hour. The recruiter then sent a generic "not selected for next round" (they didn't have a next round; this was the last presentation); super rude by any standards to send to a scientist interview candidate; even Google Research that gets umpteen applications send a better rejection letter to someone who did an onsite interview with them. A previous member of our lab from the same lab had attended their interview the last year. He got the offer offer but declined as they did not value his skills. They offered to pay something around SGD 36K (SI Valley value for a deep learning research scientist is at USD 150K base salary and upwards). I strongly discourage any scientist who values his skills to avoid interviewing with made up research institute.