Point72·Data Scientist

Point72 Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I completed a fairly long technical process ending in a take-home project rejection, and the lack of clean communication made it feel especially rough.

Hackerrank online assessment — about 1 hour with 3 programming questions and 1 SQL.
Phone interviews — two back-to-back phone interviews, each about 30 minutes.
Take-home project — a substantial assignment that required downloading, processing, and analyzing a large dataset (described as taking 30+ hours).
Rejection + follow-up issues — I received a rejection message with an incorrect recipient name and typos; it took multiple follow-up emails to confirm the outcome. Outcome: I didn’t move forward, and the takeaway was that the process felt under-designed and the

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