I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Factual in Feb 2013
Interview
Applied online and recieved a response in a week. Had a simple screening interview over the phone with HR. Had a follow-up phone interview with engineer. He started off with very basic questions based on my resume and went into technical questions about Python and regex syntax. Still not too bad. Ended with a "brain-teaser" question about culling data from Yelp. I started hitting road blocks there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were to find out how many businesses there were in the United States, how could you use Yelp to do that? What if Yelp is very protective of their data?
Candidates applying for Data Specialist Intern roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Factual overall takes an average of 29 days.
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