Upstart·Data Scientist

Upstart Data Scientist interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Jun 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with HR, and the HR call was genuinely pleasant—deep enough to cover my background and previous work rather than staying surface-level.

After that, I moved into technical interviews and the theme stayed fairly practical: stats and A/B-style thinking showed up, along with coding that felt closer to small simulation work.

In one of the technical rounds, the pacing was a bit odd. The interviewer got going with a speedy company intro, I shared my background, and then I was pulled into coding quickly. What threw me off was that I kept getting prompted to change parts of my approach (like adjusting x or y) before I could fully finish the solution. It was different from the flow I was used to elsewhere, where you’d complete an

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