Acumen·Statistician

Acumen Statistician interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early steps were built around a data exercise to test how I think about drivers behind a relationship.

After I applied, I waited about a month and then got an email asking me to complete the exercise. The task was designed around reasoning through variables that could explain why one metric moves in line with another, and it was something I could work through in Excel. Mine turned out to be a little thrown off by unclear instructions, so I answered the way I interpreted it, not the way they apparently intended.

What saved me was that I still got an interview, and during that conversation I was able to explain how I read the prompt and why I made the choices I did. That matched what they were

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