I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Upgrade (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2022
Interview
Heard back from a recruiter ~1 week after I applied. Scheduled two 1 hour interviews back to back with the VP and a Senior Data Scientist. Very odd for the first round to be this long. The first interview with the VP was just really terrible. I answered all his questions correctly. But his attitude was very off putting & obnoxious. He seemed like he didn't wanna be there interviewing me at all. Dude thought he was doing a massive favor interviewing me. Honestly don't see why this guy is a VP. The second interview was quite the opposite. The interviewer was very pleasant, asked me questions with a lot of zest & was very involved & interested throughout. Loved the interview and I answered ~99% of their questions. Heard back after a week that I was rejected. I have no clue why, because I did very well. Don't see any point in interviewing with this company in the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1. Describe Gradient Boosting in detail. Q2. Bias Variance Tradeoff. Q3. Questions on regularization, etc.
Technical round: asked a lot of details of boosting models and random forest model. The training process and tuning parameters. Also let me explain one of the deep learning models
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The model structure and details Every project in my resume
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Upgrade (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2022
Interview
HR contacted for two one-hour interviews with a hiring manager and a senior. All technical details of machine learning models. The manager seemed unwilling to do the interview and very tired.
Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Upgrade with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Upgrade overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Upgrade as a Data Scientist according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 40%
One on one interview: 40%
Phone interview: 20%
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