Upstart Data Scientist interview experience (2019)

Upstart Data Scientist interview experience

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San Carlos, CAPosted Aug 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a process that was generally efficient and structured, but still ended up feeling like the hardest parts were very technical and sometimes not very candidate-friendly.

After initial HR coordination, I reached technical screens where I explained reasoning around modeling outputs and moved into coding and statistics tasks.

What stood out to me most was the interview intensity: questions leaned into probability and statistics, and when coding showed up it wasn’t just routine implementation—it was tied to demonstrating understanding. Even when interviewers were intelligent and engaged, the technical depth could feel punishing, and in one case the pacing was so fast that it left little room to recover when something wasn’t interpreted the way I expected.

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