QuantumBlack Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Feb 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A recruiter reached out and gave me a walkthrough of the process, and the tone of that first interaction was genuinely positive.

Based on that overview, I expected to get further, but I didn’t make it past the coding assessment.

The assessment itself tested traditional DS&A style skills, and I remember being surprised by that requirement given the role being data science. I couldn’t see why those structures were central to the job as described, and that mismatch made the failure feel more arbitrary.

I didn’t receive an offer, and the whole thing ended right at the coding stage. The biggest reflection I had afterward was how early the process closed the door, before any broader explanation of how my data-science

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