I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Pluralsight in Feb 2017
Interview
* Contacted by HR phone screener, about a month and a half after I submitted an application online. This phone screen took about 10 minutes (I almost gave up because he was 15 minutes late in calling me and sounded very rushed).
* One week later, had a 1:1 with the hiring manager, via "bluejeans" video conference. This was another basic interview, about projects I had worked on in the past, general data science knowledge. Pretty low-key, and lasted about an hour.
* Another week later, had a take-home test, looking at some data similar to what they look like in their position and developing a model. Had the chance to do this over a weekend; was about 5-6 hours of work.
* Then had a group discussion via bluejeans with hiring manager and 5 other team members; all but 2 were at different sites from each other. This took around 3 hours of time. Discussed my take-home project and more general data science questions.
* I was then invited to come out to Farmington, UT, to have an on-site visit. At this point, I declined to move forward in the process, because the job didn't seem like a good fit for what I enjoy working on. It also seemed like a lateral move rather than a career-jump move, and I didn't want to relocate for this type of move.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a lot of questions about my take-home project; in particular wanted to know about the reasons that I took the approach that I did. I could tell they were coming more from a statistical and economics background for the most part; while I'm more of an engineering and machine-learning hacker type standpoint.
They also had a lot of "ambiguous" questions; by that, I mean questions about ambiguous business situations I might encounter in this position. Wanted to know how well I would do with ambiguous questions I might get from business leaders.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pluralsight in Apr 2022
Interview
HR Screen + Cognitive Test (CCAT) followed by a fairly substantial round of interviews with 8 different employees (in the olden days we called this an on-site, now it's just five hours of zoom meetings over a couple days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Explain the differences between SVMs, Logistic regression, and random forests as applied to classification, and the pros and cons of each method.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Pluralsight in Jan 2022
Interview
Misleading and drawn-out interview process. After hours of interviews and multiple projects to complete on my own time, including an interview initially described as a final round, I have not received any updates from the company.
Series of phone interviews and zoom type video calls. The process was fine, nothing special. They also requested I complete an at home project for them which I didn't really have time for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a data science project you completed and why you made the decisions you did.