You are asked several behavioral questions in an interview:
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Self-description
: Give three words that accurately describe you as a professional (e.g., traits like "curious", "reliable", "data-driven") and illustrate each trait with a brief example from your experience.
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Goal planning
: How do you set, plan, and track your personal or professional goals? Describe your process and any frameworks or tools you use.
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Recent paper
: Talk about a research paper you have read recently. What problem does it address, what is the key idea or method, what were the main results, and what did you personally learn from it?
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Competition reflection
: In a competition where you did not win first place (for example, a data science or programming contest), why do you think the champion's solution or code was better than yours? What advantages did their approach have, and what did you learn from comparing your solution to theirs?