I applied online. I interviewed at UC San Francisco (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2026
Interview
As far as I know it was just one or two rounds since the role was for a small lab. The PI and the lab manager interviewed me and a lot of their questions focused on grades from undergrad and masters, not just GPA but specific course grades which I thought was a bit odd. Other than that it was the basic behavioral questions expected and some on DS/ML applications and projects.
I had a phone interview with the professor and quickly went through my background. Then in the second interview, he asked me a coding question and I finally got some take-home quizzes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the starting indices of the substrings in string (S) which is made by concatenating all words from a list(L)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at UC San Francisco in Sept 2019
Interview
Interview, case study, in person interview. Case study was 3hrs to get findings from generic data set. In person interview was with entire 8 person team, before a smaller technical interview with data science team
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you acceptance test a ABM. Does this modelling answer specific questions