I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Allstate in Apr 2016
Interview
I spoke with a recruiter first who asked me about my previous work and a couple of behavioral questions. After that, I received an assignment to complete at home within two days. During a conference call with two data scientists, I presented this work and the interviewers asked a couple of critical questions. The interview further entailed a couple of puzzles and some coding questions. I did very poorly and but the interviewers were very patient and nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
* You have a jar with 3 kinds of jelly beans. How many times do you have to pick a jelly bean before you are certain you have 2 of the same kind?
* What is the formula of the standard deviation and how many operations would it take to code it?
* If I give you 2 lists of vectors, how would you code if they are the same, even if they would be in a different order?
And more of that.