Process
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks.
My process started with a referral which was followed up on quickly by the recruiting team for a half hour screening call. After the recruiter call I had a half hour meeting/interview with a researcher on the team covering background, prior projects and touching on some basic ML concepts. The next step was a take home task. I thought that the task was relatively vague and I found it difficult to make progress as I did not have prior experience working with audio data.
After the take home came a 45 minute meeting with two team members to talk about the take home task. About 3 days after this interview I got a call saying that I didn't get an offer. This was not surprising given my take home and overall I was happy with the process as it was both prompt and professional. In hindsight I would recommend taking time to thoroughly study both concepts but particularly the open source software relevant to ASR before applying for the internship.
Questions
Build a model for speaker change detection.
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Deepgram Work Experiences
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