Senior Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at General Mills with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Data Scientist roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at General Mills overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at General Mills as a Senior Data Scientist according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
Group panel interview: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 12%
Other: 8%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at General Mills in May 2021
Interview
Recruiter round, first round is technical + behavioral round, then SQL & Python coding round using codility, hogan personality development tests, final round with hiring manager, 2 Sr. Data scientists and data team manager
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First round:
* Experience and why you left jobs?
* Why General Mills?
* Explain PCA to a jr.DS
* Tell me about a time that you had conflict with your manager?
* Tell me about a time when you worked with other teams to get your job done?
* How do you explain coefficients of a linear regression to a business person?
* Tell me about a time you had to convince your manager to listen to you?
* What are your long term career plans?
Codility:
* Implement Mutual Info probability distribution using Python
Final round:
Hiring Manager:
* How do you deal with bad data? How did you handle them ?
* How do deal with missing values ?
* Is more data always good ?
* What is cross-validation, explain ?
* Which tool do you prefer ? R or Python ?
* What do you do when distribution of train & test data is different ?
* What is the size of data that you worked with? No of observations and No of features ?
* Your experience writing production level code ?
* experience with GCP ?
* Around Betty crocker's website. Recipe recommendations? How do you ask them questions ? How do you see if your model is performing well or not ? How do you deploy a model ?
* How to motivate team members ?
* How did you help under performers
2 Sr. DS: provides a python notebook, which is almost same as https://github.com/andreagrandi/ml-pima-notebook/blob/master/PimaIndiansDiabetes.ipynb
data team manager: 1 question per General Mills values, around helping team members, a situation where you did the right thing, etc
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at General Mills
Interview
Recruiter was proactive and wanted to hire a SDS for their eCommerce division. She then scheduled the tech interview with someone who has about 2-3yrs of experience and also a Sr Data Scientist. It was obvious that he lacks experience. At the conclusion, he replied that he thinks that I am a fit for the role. A few days later, I received negative response concluding the interviews.
The hiring manger never spoke with me. I was told that they are hiring like crazy! My interview was similar to another review but mine did not make it to codality.
Waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Projects from current role. Challenges I faced. Explain PCA
Interview for Center of Excellence Data scientist.
Recruiter screen, hiring manager call, and then on-site with an assortment of interviews with the team and stakeholders. Very standard interview process. They really treat you well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk through a pre-existing data science notebook and assess it.
The HR person sent me an email to set up the first screening interview. On the interview day, 5 mins before the interview, I got an email to cancel the interview because the HR’s dog was sick. I tried to reschedule the interview several times through email but never got a response. I then followed up by phone two weeks later and the HR told me that she completely forgot it and it was her mistake and she will send my resume to the hiring manager. I finally received no interview callback at all and got a rejection through email a week later.
The HR person was very disorganized in their selection process and failed to treat candidate with respect.