I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ecobee (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2019
Interview
First a phone interview with an HR person for half an hour, then a relatively short take home exercise (took me a few hours) and finally an onsite with 3 people from the Data Science team
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions and white-boarding about tackling data pipeline related scenarios, language agnostic
I was given a challenging but reasonable take home problem took me a a day to complete (I would have taken more time but I didn’t have because of other time constraints
The interview asked me about:
1. Experience (resume) / describe points from my resume (technology / projects)
2. any changes and/ or improvements I would make to my take home submission.
3. Architectural questions about data pipelines and processes
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an architecture ( I can’t give the specific diagram) what would you change in-order to significantly increase the efficiency.
I applied through other source. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at ecobee (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2019
Interview
Interview was re-scheduled multiple times over a period of 3-4 months.
Everytime they would ask to schedule the interview and then just not respond.
Finally they called me up again and this time with a concrete date.
Questions are related to background really.
Did not seem exciting role and I decided not to pursue further.
Hi there - sorry to hear you had a negative experience! Candidate experience is our number one priority; however, sometimes we make mistakes and a candidate can get missed. If you'd like to chat further about your experience feel free to send me an email at sclancey@ecobee.com.
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