United Airlines Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Chicago, ILPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The interview journey started with an online coding assessment, then moved into HireVue.

After those, I had a behavioral interview with two interviewers. They asked questions using the STAR style and wanted me to answer with a technical approach when I talked through experiences.

For the behavioral portion, the questions were tied back to projects in a way that required more than just storytelling—I had to connect my examples to what I did technically and how I approached the problem. The expectation of “technical approach” kept me on my toes because I couldn’t stay high-level.

I didn’t receive an offer. Even so, I could tell they were looking for both structured responses and

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