1. phone screen with a bot
2. technical interview on the phone with two employees (a data scientist and a data analytics engineer) that starts with asking you to go over the resume and then proceeds to a couple of coding questions and ends with a case study question (see below for specifics)
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Tell us how you'd write a function that takes a list of integers as its first argument and another integer as its second argument and then returns whether any pair of integers in the list sums to the integer given as the second argument.
A shipping company asks you to evaluate how efficient its fleet are using fuel. How would you go about doing that? (e.g. outcome variable, features you'd want) Do you have follow up questions? What kind of model would you use? What metrics would you use to evaluate?
I applied online and I had a recorded phone interview with Montana System (not a real person), must be finished in 48 hours since you received the email. 10 questions in total , about 15 minutes.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Allstate (Bothell, WA) in Mar 2019
Interview
First phone screen I got with 3 data scientists that asked me about my background and some technical questions. Then I got an onsite interview structured by a 1hr interview on behavioral questions, 1hr programming, 1hr lunch with 2 employees and finally a 1hr use case. I enjoyed this interview as the staff was friendly, professional and willing to help you in stuck situations.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
How would you calculate the number of draws you need to take so that you get 2 jellybeans of the same kind from a jar full of 3 kinds of jellybeans?