I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Travelers in Apr 2022
Interview
2 separate video call interviews and then offer was extended a week later. 1st interview was about 30 minutes and with one person who was a Director and data scientist of BI analytics & research. 2nd interview was about 60 minutes and was with a two person panel where one person was a data scientist from their Business research department and the other person was a data scientist from their claims/fraud detection department. Both interviews were very natural conversations about the position, my skill set, and past experiences. They were the most comfortable interviews I've had so far for a data science position. The whole process took just 5 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st interview: Introduce yourself. Why do you want to work at Travelers? Describe your current project. Very briefly describe a past data science project completed.
2nd interview: 1st person: Introduce yourself. Why are you interested in insurance? Describe a group colloboration and your role and contributions to the effort and follow up questions. Describe your current project and follow up questions. Describe a past project involving data science and follow up questions about statistics, analysis, and machine learning. Explain p-value, type 1, and type 2 errors.
2nd person focused on programming in python (or R) and SQL: How to split a table by rows and randomly assign rows to each split? How to combine two tables that share an agent ID column? How to produce a table without duplicate rows? Monty hall game question. The last question this person asked me was to think about how I would approach determining an insurance policy for a specific new market, which I won't share here. This last question was a test of critical thinking.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Travelers in Dec 2025
Interview
It was behavioral in the first inter, and the 60-min technical interview, with 4 other 30 min technical interviews. It was diffuclt , yet interesting to experience and hope to get offered a full-time position after program is done.
1hr critical thinking + coding + consulting, for coding they asked one python code and one sql code. for consulting, they ask lots of "useless" questions and i still dont know why. like How many traffic lights do you want to create in dt...
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Question 1
How many traffic lights do you want to create in dt...
I applied online. I interviewed at Travelers (Hartford, CT)
Interview
hr phone call and panel interview in general positive interview experience. The question is not hard just basic ML question and statistics question. Be prepared for generalize linear model questions. You can choose to use python or R to answe your programming questions