Voleon·Data Scientist

Voleon Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

PortugalPosted Aug 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through multiple interviews that, on paper, sounded like a good fit for the kind of work I do, but the process itself quickly raised red flags.

The firm didn’t seem prepared to handle candidates who weren’t coming from PhD backgrounds, and the experience became more about forcing a specific expected solution than evaluating how I approached the problem.

A big part of it involved HackerRank exercises, and what made it especially frustrating was that the platform didn’t work properly for much of the time. That turned what should’ve been a straightforward assessment into a major waste of time, and even when I got stuck, the interviewers seemed rude and elitist and wouldn’t really help.

They ended up cutting the process short after I’d

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