Fractal Data Scientist interview experience

The aptitude section felt mostly average, though the data analysis part was the most time-consuming element. The part that threw me off more than the difficulty itself was the technical coding test on HackerRank—because it was my first time using that interface, I wasn’t comfortable writing solutions in that environment, even for what otherwise seemed like straightforward R programming tasks.

What also bothered me was the ambiguity: the email didn’t clearly explain which role they were hiring for, and that created a sense of mismatch since I’d applied expecting a data science track. After