Natera·Data Scientist

Natera Data Scientist interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial recruiter pre-screen, I met with the hiring manager for a round that focused on screening and probability.

Then I had two separate interviews—one focused on statistics and another on programming.

The programming round was the hardest part. The interviewer seemed rushed and kept working while the questions were on screen, with very little back-and-forth. The shared coding space wasn’t working for them, so I coded from my local setup instead, and that shift didn’t seem to land well. For a stretch they stayed quiet while I solved the problem, and once I finished they pushed to raise the difficulty by moving toward recursion. What threw me off most was that the expectations felt more like data

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