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Mock interview scripts and rubrics for the Data Science program. These scripts are intended for interviewers only, please do not share this link.

Final Interview

This script covers the final interview for the course.

Because this is a project-based interview, questions should be tailored to the project itself, but a rough guideline is below.

Afterwards, write up comments and ways to improve and submit them via the Typeform linked in your dashboard.

  • What did you build?

    • Why did you choose this?
    • How did you know it would be doable?
    • What research did you do before you started trying to make it?
  • How is this going to help people?

    • Who is your user?
    • How will they use the thing?
  • How was this technically challenging?

    • What was the biggest difficulty you had? How did you overcome it?
  • Technical dive

    • How did you use unsupervised learning?

      • Why did you use it like that?
      • Describe the technique.
    • How did you select your supervised model component?

      • What was your evaluation metric?
      • Why was that the right one? Did you consider any others?
  • How do you know this is good enough?

    • What are the weaknesses of the model as it stands?
  • What would you do if you had more time?

    • What expertise did you not have that you wish you did?
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