Assignment (20 minutes): This assignment helps us understand your math and logic. Since our product is data heavy, we need to get a sense of your comfort levels. Introduction call (30 mins): This will be an initial discussion to learn about your background, and interests and share about the role. Technical Discussion (45 mins): This conversation will be scheduled with someone from the Data Science team. This will be an overall discussion to understand if we meet mid-way. This call will also test your coding skills. Based on this discussion, we'll proceed with the next step. Assignment (3-4 hours): As a part of the next stage of the process, we will send an assignment your way. This problem would be based on Data Science. It won't take you more than 4 hours to complete it, but we will give you about 3 days to work on it. We will reach out to you before scheduling this round. Assignment Discussion (1 hour): We will set up an hour's discussion with the team to go over your assignment with you. Through this discussion, you will get to interact with and know the team and it will help us understand your thought process and approach Culture fit (30 mins): You'll meet with our founding team. They'd want to understand what drives you. This is also a good opportunity to get the inside scoop on PriceLabs.

The HR gave me a damn 10 line pseudo-code in a take home assignment and asked me a short description on what the code is trying to do. I gave the entire description of the code in detail along with the output. The description and the output were both accurate. Received a mail that description is not "succinct" enough. Seriously? I had asked very clearly on what is expected. Was given no clear instructions and finally a vague feedback that description is not 'succinct'. This is the worst way to have a pre-screening. Why not just give an aptitude/coding test and shortlist only the top performers. Stop wasting a candidate's time with such exercises.