I recently appeared for an interview (Data science) with Discover Financial Services
I could not understand 20% of the interview questions due to accent issues and answered them as per best understanding.
I think I might get a rejection.
Would it be a good to notify HR about what happned or should i wait for result?
Please suggest

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You should let your recruiter know that you had trouble understanding the questions, especially if you believe you did poorly. See if they can grant you another interview. Be nice and approach this as you are at fault for not properly understanding the questions. Just be prepared that this might reflect poorly on you. People with accents are very common in large international companies. There are brilliant people with accents. If your interviewer is highly respected in the company, it will look really bad blaming his accents for your poor performance. Learning is how you handle the situation in the future. You could have simply repeat the questions back to confirm your understanding, request the interviewer to speak slower, ask clarification questions and ask if you answered the interview's questions. Your failure to manage the interview will unfortunately hurt your chance of getting an offer. This situation could happen in an important leadership meeting, project meet or important client calls. What are you going to do? Tell them to send you an native English speaker.

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I completely agree to you point of view.
Its been three years for me in working with high diversity organizations but i never faced such scenario.
I did ask for clarifications unfortunately, it did not work.

Anyways thanks for your message. I must learn the technique for managing interviews in such cases

I would notify before. If it really was a case of a bad accent that really impacted my ability to perform. If it's a small accent then you need to check yourself.

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