Upstart·Data Scientist

Upstart Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My onsite turned out to be the worst part of the process for me, even though the whole setup sounded like it should have been manageable.

I was given a remote, very long data exercise that felt more like a take-home assignment than an interview: it ran for about two hours, and it was mentally draining.

I was handed a one-page set of questions and a dataset that didn’t seem related to the loan/finance context I associated with the company. I expected some collaboration or at least explanations while I worked through it, but the interviewer didn’t show much interest in walking through the problem or helping me interpret what they wanted. I felt like I had to do a thorough discussion and also produce a complete model with code

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