Shift Technology Data Scientist interview experience

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SingaporePosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online HackerRank assessment, and I ended up with two DSA questions: House Robber and Valid Parentheses.

After that, I had an HR interview that was genuinely relaxed and conversational. We talked about my background, my motivation for applying, and how I saw myself over the next five years.

The technical interview was structured as a whiteboard discussion with both programming and machine learning. They gave me two documents. One was the problem setup and described a time-series dataset where each row represented an insurance claim with a label, and the goal was to predict whether a claim was fraudulent. The second document showed a Python implementation using pandas and scikit-learn—covering

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