I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Glassdoor (Mill Valley, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
I applied on the Glassdoor website, got a response from a recruiter pretty quickly. Had a follow-up phone screen with the recruiter and 2 with members of the team (1 informational, 1 general case phone screen). Next, there was a take-home data assignment. Last step was on-site at the Mill Valley office with 5 interviews going over past machine learning projects, understanding metrics, business communication, product intuition, simple coding knowledge, a few brain teasers, etc.
Overall, the process was pretty straightforward and positive with a lot of communication from recruiting and from the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the advantages/disadvantages of different metrics for evaluating search results? (Metrics were provided and defined)
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Glassdoor in May 2015
Interview
-Received a dataset to analyze at home. Got the week-end but spend about 3 hours. This "homework" was interesting (unlike some other completely useless homework that I got).
-Skype interview with a data scientist, classic background question and some question about the homework. Not very technical, but interesting. They proposed interesting projects, but got a better opportunity somewhere else and refuse the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Difference between classical regression/classification methods. Mainly tree based methods (boosting vs bagging vs RF).
- Cool projects, cool experiences in the field of data analysis
- What do people say about me