I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Neiman Marcus in Sep 2021
Interview
Applied on LinkedIn, a recruiter then called my cell a couple of days later. Once I called back we had a ~10 mins quick HR screening, she then asked me to text her back my availability for next week to schedule interviews. I did and the following communications all happened via email. No one told me how many rounds I would need to hop through, when I asked the team they had no idea either. First screening was with 5 DS, it was a live coding session in Jupyter notebook (30 mins ML + 30 mins SQL). Second screening was with another 5 DS on the team (1 hr), this time it was a mix of technical questions (ML, stats etc) + behavioral questions. The last and final round was a 30-min chat with the senior director. If passed, you'll receive an offer. I had to withdraw myself from the process due to pending offers. HR never ghosted me in the process, I'd appreciate if they shared the hiring timeline though.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain Naive Bayes. How much do you know about NN? Why is activation used? Python - given a small data set (sent 5 mins prior to the interview), build a model to predict the outcome (you can Google but need to be in the same screen sharing session).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Neiman Marcus (Dallas, TX) in Feb 2013
Interview
The interview process was pretty good. Once the recruiter passed me onto the internal people, I think I had to wait 48 hours before I did a phone screen with HR, followed up with a phone screen with the hiring manager and a follow up with the department head. The 2 phone calls with manager and department head were technical and thought provoking to see how i thought and figured out problems; I'd call it standard as far as the questions asked nothing too hard or difficult to answer or work thru.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to determine the size of a heel from pictures using computer analysis?
Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Neiman Marcus with 3.5 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 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Neiman Marcus overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Neiman Marcus as a Data Scientist according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Drug test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
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