Upstart·Data Scientist

Upstart Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Mateo, CAPosted Feb 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early experience was marked by delays and communication gaps from the start.

I ended up spending more than three months trying to get scheduled, even though I’d been contacted to interview. Every time I offered availability, I would hear that the data scientists were busy and that I should send more times—repeating the same shuffle for weeks.

When I finally did speak with people, the technical side was at least coherent: one phone interview covered ML questions and a coding task, and the next step was another phone interview that was described as a follow-up. But scheduling the next round repeatedly collapsed back into the same cycle, and the communication felt lazy

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