I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Point72 in Jan 2022
Interview
1-hour hackerrank (3 programming questions and 1 SQL), two 30-min back to back phone interviews, followed by a take-home project. Rejected after the take-home with no feedback after getting an email addressed to the wrong name with several typos. Took several emails of follow-up to clarify whether I was indeed rejected.
The take-home easily took upward of 30 hours to finish with the 16GB 311 calls to download, process and analyze. I felt like the company invested as little as they could in the process and then haphazardly sent out rejections. Almost felt like they outsourced their work project, gathered whatever insight from interviewees, and get rid of you as soon as possible. Very poorly designed interview process and probably not worth your time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
analyze relationship between 311 NYC requests and weather data
Hackerrank consisting of easy-medium SQL and coding leet code type questions followed by "behavioral interview" that is technical, followed by technical statistics round. Interviewer dove deep into my projects. Statistics round was straightforward (bayes rule etc.)
One of those pymetrics tests + wunderlic. Online Assesment, 1 SQL (easy), 2 leetcode mediums. Then virtual onsite with 3 interviewers. 1 Behavioral, 1 data case, 1 machine learning high level concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What happens to F-Statistic/T-statistic if you replicate the data?
1) 30 min call with recruiter 2) 90 min OA 3) 2 interviews with Data Scientists (1 behavioral + 1 technical) 4) week long case study + create a presentation 5) (onsite round) I was ghosted after my case study submission
The process is long. If you’re not 100% committed to the org + team, I wouldn't invest the time in the case study + presentation round. That said, the interviews themself were fair if you have a solid background in DS
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you do when you have conflicting priorities?
