Boston Consulting Group Data Scientist interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first recruiter screen was something I’d done months before, so by the time I moved to the next steps it felt like catching up inside a longer pipeline.

The next major step was an online assessment that mixed stats and machine learning theory multiple-choice questions with a heavier set of data science questions delivered inside a Jupyter notebook.

What made the notebook portion tough wasn’t only the content—it was how typing-heavy and lengthy it was. The data science questions built on one another, so any mistake or slowdown could compound as the test continued. I remember feeling like I needed to be comfortable moving fast through pandas and scikit-learn style tasks to keep up.

After completing it, I didn’t receive an offer. The

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