FORESIGHT(2021): Summer Internship at Adobe | Aditi Singhania

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Listen Share Brief Introduction : My name is Aditi Singhania, and I am a final year undergraduate student from the Department of electrical engineering. In the 2020 CDC internship drive, I received a Research Internship in Adobe Big Data Lab for nearly 13 weeks. Selection Procedure : The selection was divided into two steps : a. Written Test: Medium level Questions on Data Structure And Algorithm, Probability and Statistics, Some direct questions from 50 challenges in Probability and few other basic questions on OOPS, DBMS b.Interview Round: Selected students had to further appear for a 1-hour long interview round where detailed discussions on projects mentioned in the resume were discussed. The exact working of some machine learning and deep learning algorithms were asked. For me specifically, many questions were related to the language model (maybe because most of my work till then was on NLP). Also, 2 basic level questions from array and time complexity optimization were asked. This was the final round. c.Practicing questions from Interview bit, geeks for geeks,50 challenges in probability would suffice. For revising data science concepts towards data science.com, machine learning mastery, Datacamp, and Udemy have many resources. Your Project Details : Improve Digital Marketing Workflow using Topological Data Analysis. During the beginning of my project, we were given only the term Topological Data Analysis. From building the problem statement to the solution, all were based on interns’ thought processes and decisions. How was your experience working from home? I would not like to term it tricky because Adobe ensured that we have the best experience ever in the online version, but brainstorming ideas and discussion on the whiteboard would have been better than using a virtual Microsoft whiteboard. What effect could Covid have in the upcoming internship process? As the internship process has already started and I see the same company and profiles coming for the CDC internship last year, I don’t know the effect of covid there but the number of interns selected and PPO offered might be reduced due to covid for some companies. According to you, who should ideally apply for this internship? Anyone who has a keen interest in machine learning and deep learning and wants to innovate something in this field must apply for the internship. What advice will you give to them? For an interview, be very thorough with Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms, Optimization Algorithms, Evaluation metrics. In general, I would advise everyone to be patient as this entire process of securing an internship can be overwhelming at times. Maybe you don’t guarantee training in Day1/Day2 or the company you desire, but don’t let this stop you from giving your best. Eventually, things will fall in place.