QQuora, Inc.·Data Scientist

Quora, Inc. Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Quora interview path had a weird mismatch between what I was told and what I actually got.

I applied online and a recruiter reached out to schedule a call with a data scientist. Even though I was expecting a non-technical conversation based on how it was described, the technical portion showed up immediately—on that phone call I was asked classification and experimentation topics like A/B testing.

Afterward, a follow-up phone conversation focused heavily on why I wanted to join Quora, and the recruiter kept pushing for additional reasons beyond liking the product and assuming they’d have strong data science internally. The feedback felt abrupt and confusing, and I didn’t move

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