Datarobot·Data Scientist

Datarobot Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Boston, MAPosted Dec 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I spoke directly with the CEO and another data scientist, and after that I was invited back for another round—but I chose to decline at that point.

My initial impression was that the product was interesting, but I wasn’t convinced the team was the right fit to build something that would last. I worried they might be outpaced by larger, more experienced competitors.

The way they talked about their work leaned heavily on Kaggle competitions, and I didn’t see a clear connection to solving concrete business problems at scale. The technical conversation also felt centered on supervised machine learning algorithms in a fairly standard “cookie cutter” way, and I felt I did okay even though I didn’t retain every fine-grained detail of the

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