Prosper.com Interview Questions

Got through technical and product rounds . both product and Tech seems to be knowledgeable about the industry and their disciplines. Got to the HR persons interview which was super weird experience overall specially given it's a senior leadership role. he was talking about how he has brought in culture change along with the CEO built the company for better for 10 + years. didn't answer the questions I had just nodded and grinned . Ghosted there after

The interview process took 2 weeks, and it only consist of 2 rounds. One round was a behavioral interview, and the other round was a design challenge where you collaborate with others. Didn't get a chance to get to know others except for one person in the company. It felt very rushed. It feels like they only wanted to test the candidate in an unreasonable timeframe, but not trying to get to know the person and see if the candidate can fit their culture.

Panel style interview. Quick to apply and kept me informed the notify of the time. However Eve carful of recruiter calls post interview. I had a quick one and all the wanted to know was if I had other offers. And two weeks later get a rejection. Seems odd to call to ask that to me that was a first time to get that without even suggesting and offer. Felt like they wasted my time good thing I had other prospective offers and as not putting all my stuff eggs in one basket.

Started with a recruiter phone screen. I had relevant data science but not domain specific experience. However, that seemed to be the dealbreaker in the phone screen. I didn't claim to have domain knowledge on my resume so it seemed like a waste of everyone's time.

Initial call with Hr rep to get info about job and answer basic questions about the job. A three person interview, 30 minutes each for each interviewer via Zoom. Questions varied in difficulty and type. Mostly questions in your background and what you can bring to prosper.

The interview process was very informal, almost felt like talking to a friend. It started first with a call from a recruiter for the company, then to the hiring manager.

The process was very efficient. Everyone was great and the recruiters were knowledgeable and quick to respond. There were three rounds: screen, hiring manager, panel interviews with 5 people. Panels were 30 minutes each.

I met very nice people during my interview everyone was nice and straight forward. We did a roleplay and went over many different things that I would deal with on the job. got the job and start training soon.

Straightforward process and the recruiter was good. However, I got the feeling the some of the data science leads have no modeling experience from a quantitative perspective. I also looked into their profiles and turns out they spent significant amount of time at some other banks as analysts and got promoted to manager and then joined here. The interviewer was unfamiliar with lots of the modeling and statistical stuff and using naive terms to talk about credit risk and fraud models (Stuff we learn in school). Overall easy questions I would say. Basic stuff about ML models - metrics, model evaluation, some monitoring questions. I guess the interviewer was expecting the answers we get when we Google such questions rather than what we use in industry. Summarizing - Questions felt more like at analyst level rather than a matured senior data scientist level. Note to Prosper - If you want to improve your products, put the people who have experience in experimentation and modeling in charge of data science teams rather people with business side experience of stuff. Looks at how your competitors are building their DS team and getting way better results and outperforming you. You are investing but probably not in the right people. Good luck!

Total 5 rounds. 2 coding, 1 System design, 1 SQL and API design, Manager round. When discussion about numbers came in. The recruiter was a bully. She didn't even bother to congratulate on the offer and was rude to suggest that “I shouldn’t consider accepting the offer “ . Accepting an offer involves making both parties happy. According to her, negotiation means, Candidate has to give up on whereas the company can remain stubborn. It’s not a fair play when both parties involved are not meeting in the middle ground.