Two Sigma·Data Scientist

Two Sigma Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

New York, NYPosted Jul 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an HR call that kicked things off, then a fairly simple HackerRank coding assessment that involved OLS regression and some data analysis.

After that I went into a technical phone screen.

The technical part was pretty straightforward and mainly centered on walking through my current project, with probing questions as I talked. The part that made it uncomfortable was that the interviewer’s English was their second language, which made the discussion harder than it should’ve been—especially during moments where nuance mattered. The interaction felt strained rather than purely technical, and it affected how smoothly I could communicate.

I didn’t get an offer, and the hardest takeaway wasn’t the content itself but the fact that

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