I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at DataRobot in Jul 2015
Interview
I applied online and they came back with an initial Hangouts call like a phone screen with one of their Senior Data Scientists. The whole scheduling took a weeks time from my application. The call lasted for about 30 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly about resume and since I had projects using predictive modelling it was centered around the approaches, challenges, tools used and how I would go back and improve some of the aspects of my modelling.
1. Can you explain decision trees?
2. What is association rule mining and how does it work, explain its mechanism?
3. Why are you interested in customer facing role?
4. How will you check for overfitting of data?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at DataRobot (Dubai)
Interview
5 rounds some technical questions mostly questions about prior experience and asked to deliver a presentation about previously delivered project
No coding take home assignment, no leetcode, no real hard DS grilling questions more trying to gauge your ability to explain technical concepts both to technical and non technical audience members
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Could you present to us something you've previously worked on
The process included several rounds of talking with first a recruiter, then members of the team I was joining. It culminated with a presentation interview to two current employees posing as customers
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at DataRobot (Washington, DC) in Nov 2021
Interview
Approximately 5 technical (virtual) interviews and 1 behavioral. The technical interviews were highly repetitive in asking about the same supervised machine learning algorithms, pros/cons, and troubleshooting steps. Felt like there was no continuity between interviewers. Technical interviewers were adequate (but not excellent) technical communicators, but they were looking for very specific answers. Once I hit some arbitrary threshold of answering a question correctly, they'd interrupt and fire off the next question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name common preprocessing (cleaning) steps for a supervised machine learning model.
How would you deal with severe class imbalance while developing an ensemble model?
Data Scientist (Customer Facing) applicants have rated the interview process at DataRobot with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 43.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist (Customer Facing) roles take an average of 55 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at DataRobot overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at DataRobot as a Data Scientist (Customer Facing) according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 35%
One on one interview: 18%
Presentation: 15%
Group panel interview: 12%
Skills test: 12%
Background check: 3%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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