Shift Technology Data Scientist interview experience

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FrancePosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a pretty intense multi-step process where the interviews felt like they were looking for a reason to reject me.

It started with an HR conversation, then moved into a technical interview, followed by a case study round, and finally another technical interview.

The questions covered a lot of ground: algorithmic topics, object-oriented programming, time series, Kalman filters, and recommendations. During the case study I remember pitching through a pricing scenario tied to a “sinister”/claim context, and later there were also questions on how to handle categorical variables. Even though SQL hadn’t been explicitly introduced as the focus, I was asked about SQL queries anyway; I managed to answer the first

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