Voleon·Data Scientist

Voleon Data Scientist interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interview split into two parts and both were pretty intense.

In the first part, they gave me a dataframe (or a way to join data) and I had to do EDA, then run an OLS regression and discuss the p-values and R-squared. I also had to pay attention to the assumptions and residual analysis, not just the output numbers.

The second part was Linux terminal. I had to be comfortable with command-line tools like grep, find, and awk, and I stayed engaged by explaining what I was doing and why as I moved through the tasks.

It ran about 75 minutes, and the difficulty felt high because it blended statistical correctness with practical tooling. By the end, it was

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