QuantumBlack Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Chicago, ILPosted May 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Before I ever spoke to anyone, I was asked to complete a technical assessment that was described as a real work-style exercise.

I wasn’t thrilled by that approach, so I initially held off and then talked it through on a call to understand what the role actually involved. That call revealed the job would be intense hours-wise and didn’t pay above market. Still, I decided to try the assessment.

The technical work itself was tough and time-boxed, and the platform details made it harder than it needed to be. In my run, it involved multiple in-depth challenges under a strict 2-hour window. I couldn’t load familiar libraries like numpy, and the error feedback didn’t give me enough context to iterate quickly. The result was

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