I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Twilio
Interview
Similar to other experiences here.
Recruiter sent a dataset and I made it to next round after submitting the take home ppt. I would recommend doing that as a learning experience. Got fairly positive feedback in the interview with hiring manager but they went radio silence for more than a week.
I followed up and the recruiter said they are moving on with someone else. When I asked for feedback, he went radio silence again.
Fast responses and relevant questions/assessment. Overall interview process was great and an accurate assessment of DS ability. Recruiters responded very quickly after each step as well. Typical interview style as compared to most tech companies
The recruiter first directly scheduled a phone call without asking for availability. The first sign of a negative culture in the company. They do not respect your time.
The next step was a take-home challenge to analyze churn behavior.
It was a monthly dataset of usage of each customer - They wanted to do exploratory analysis, clustering & build a predictive model to find the correlation.
First - when you do such a detailed analysis - it takes a few hours to get to know the dataset - they said it will take only 4 hours to complete the assignment.
Second - you get paid to do so much work if you are working for any company. In my current company, we categorize such project as very high effort & given 1 week time.
I spent 10+ hours doing the assignment - sent a detailed analysis - and got a rejection.
The company has unrealistic expectations from the candidates.
Also, they did not even schedule a hiring manager/ screening interview prior to the take-home - You do not know anything about the team, yet you are expected to spend time doing an assignment for them.