QQuora, Inc.·Data Scientist

Quora, Inc. Data Scientist interview experience

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Berkeley, CAPosted Dec 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a phone interview that felt tightly scoped and pretty intense for its length.

I spent about 15 minutes discussing the company and sharing any product ideas I had, which set a more conversational tone than I expected.

Then the call quickly turned into a coding exercise—45 minutes on a web interface where I typed Python code directly in response to prompts. It wasn’t framed as algorithms trivia; it was more like using coding to demonstrate I could solve the problem as I went. The combination of product discussion followed by live coding made it feel difficult in a very specific way, and I left knowing the technical bar was real, even though I didn’t end up getting an

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