Acumen·Software Engineer

Acumen Software Engineer interview experience

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SanFranciscoPosted Jun 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I found the opportunity through an on-campus job link, applied online, and then ended up sending a few follow-up emails before I finally heard back.

After that, I was asked to submit a coding sample. A few weeks passed, and then I got a pretty technical phone interview where they pushed hard on my background: I had to explain my projects and course work in statistics and numerical analysis, and I was grilled on specific statistical methods. They also critiqued my regression analysis work pretty rigorously, and I remember feeling like I did well because the topic was something I was genuinely confident in.

After the call, it took a couple weeks with no updates. I reached out for an answer, and the next day I received an email rejecting

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