Shift Technology Data Scientist interview experience

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United KingdomPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ran into what felt like a brutally hard technical interview for a graduate-level role.

They had said they wanted someone with some SQL and Python, and it started with a medium coding assessment under time and complexity constraints.

Then the live interview took a sharp turn. The interviewer joined about ten minutes late without any apology, and the questions went deep into object-oriented programming and C#—topics that weren’t in the job description as far as I could tell. It also felt like she was rushing me constantly and being harsh, which made it hard to think clearly. I didn’t know what to expect going in; I had assumed it would follow the coding assessment and include

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