Junior Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Allstate with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 37% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Junior Data Scientist roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 19 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Allstate overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Allstate as a Junior Data Scientist according to 19 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
Presentation: 17%
Group panel interview: 14%
One on one interview: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Skills test: 6%
Background check: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Allstate (Chicago, IL) in Mar 2019
Interview
I applied online, then received an email telling me to call a number with 10 automated questions and they'd record my response. Next I did a follow-up technical interview for an hour and was invited to interview on-site.
The on-site interview was in Chicago and took all day talking with various employees. First there were behavioral questions and next were coding questions, selecting data and joining tables in SQL and writing a recursive Python function.
Most of the folks interviewing me had PhDs from good schools and were very bright. Lots of questions were to see how deep my mathematical understanding of ML models was. I think I have a solid math understanding, but it was apparently not enough. If you answer a question or point something out they'll immediately ask "why?"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Be prepared to answer very technical questions on decision trees and linear regression. There were no questions related to deep learning.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Allstate (Bengaluru) in Apr 2022
Interview
Round 1: The interview went on for more than 1.5 hours as the interviewer asked questions from all possible topics from ML & NLP. Round 2: Two managers took this round where they focused on predictive analytics and one use case. Round 3: This interview was scheduled for 2 hours where 1 hour was dedicated to coding and 1 hour for use case solution design.We discussed the use case given by the interviewers. In coding I was able to solve 1 coding question and explained logic fr the other but wasn’t selected for further rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A lot of questions from all possible topics in ML & NLP. Coding questions of intermediate level.
I applied online. I interviewed at Allstate (Charlotte, NC)
Interview
Was relatively easy, there's a lot of information about the process online that helped me prepare for each step of the interview. The members of AllState are friendly and help you along at each point so that even if you don't know an answer you can show how you're thinking which is more important to them.
It was a 3 interview Process: A phone screening, a technical interview, and a 3-hour interview including a behavioral interview, a technical interview, and a case study.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you write a function that adds a string of integers together? For example input is 12 so it should add 1 +2 + 12 to equal 15
The interview process was supposed to be the same as the previous posts described. Three turns total:
1. A phone screening with a bot: all behavior questions. They gave me 48 hours to finish the process after sending me the email.
2. Technical phone interview with two data scientists. They asked about my recent project and some difficulties I encountered. One fairly simple coding problem and a case study about the fuel efficiency of ship transportation.
3. This is a depressing one. I was scheduled for a third interview but had it canceled several days ahead. Then recently HR contacted me that the interview is not going to happen and they will not move further on my application. This was supposed to be the last turn of the interview and I was quite excited about it. I understand that this is an unusual time, but I can't help feeling frustrated. I hope this won't happen to future applicants.
To the other applicants who had a similar experience, I'm sorry for the situation and best wishes to you.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Find a pair of numbers in a list that sums up to a target value.
For the case study, describe some data preprocessing techniques. How do you deal with categorical variables with many levels? How would you go about dealing with missing data? How do you evaluate your model? Some other questions will depend on your response during the interview.