QQuora, Inc.·Data Scientist

Quora, Inc. Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

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Negative

Mountain View, CAPosted Dec 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an early phone screen with a data scientist, and then I was invited to an on-site interview in the company’s office.

The on-site felt like it was packed and heavily focused on my current projects—I wanted to talk through how I would solve problems their way, but whenever I tried to shift into their approach, I kept hitting a wall where the response was that they couldn’t share. Even though the questions seemed general, the interaction made the whole day feel frustrating.

A separate experience gave me a similar flavor of confusion around expectations: I was told the first round wouldn’t be technical, but when I got on the call, the interviewer quickly jumped into technical questions. The questioning also

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