I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Prudential (Mesa, AZ) in Feb 2024
Interview
I was referred by my friend. HR schedule a phone screen for 30 min but she sounds like in a rush and only talks about 10 mins. Then I took a online assessment. Fail me after the assessment
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The online assessment is about basic statistics, ML and programming questions.
They sent me a hacker rank assessment. I didn't get one email before or after I did the test from the recruiter even on follow up. Horrible recruiting for sure!
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Prudential
Interview
The interview process had the following rounds. 1. Telephonic screening by the recruiter. 2. Interview with principal data scientist ( 30 mins video call). 3. Data Science assessment. 4. Technical round to assess your work on the assessment ( 1 hr approx, 2 people panel round, video call) 5. Interview with the team lead.( 30 mins) Seems like I cleared all these rounds, but the position I interviewed was filled out by someone. And all of these 5 rounds were rescheduled 2-3 times, making the interview process long and tedious and then the role is filled by someone else.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most questions were related to machine learning models and algorithms. For example, Random forest, Xgb, difference between bagging and boosting, how different algorithms handle NA values etc.
Senior Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Prudential with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Data Scientist roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Prudential overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Prudential as a Senior Data Scientist according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 33%
Phone interview: 17%
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