Data Science Hiring Process At Meesho

Meesho, a SoftBank, Meta, Y Combinator and Fidelity Investments-backed e-commerce platform, recently surpassed the 1.1 million seller milestone on its platform, attracting over 600,000 small enterprises within the past 12 months. Founded in 2015, Meesho has over 100 million customers and uses AI and analytics to revolutionise the way we shop. Debdoot Mukherjee, chief data scientist and head of AI and demand engineering at Meesho, discussed how the e-commerce giant is dabbling in AI and ML and their hiring process for data science candidates. AI and ML are used to engage users through push notifications and provide personalised feeds, while computer vision and NLP models are used to analyse user interaction data and decode product content.