Datarobot Data Scientist interview experience (2016)

Datarobot Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled in through a recruiter, and the early stages were friendly and quick: first a brief HR phone screen, then a run of several Google Hangout interviews with data scientists.

The common thread was that every person wanted me to go deep on predictive modeling work I’d done—describing projects and the technical aspects in detail.

What surprised me was how technical the interviews were given the role I was applying for, which I’d expected to have more client-management flavor. Even when I tried to frame things in broader terms, the focus kept snapping back to modeling details. The process also dragged on in a way that started to feel disconnected from any momentum.

Eventually communication just stopped. When I reached back out, I got a confusing response that they

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