I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Verizon (New York, NY) in Nov 2022
Interview
Very smooth process! HR screening round followed by a panel round of 1hr behavioral, 1hr case study, 1hr live SQL coding. Everyone was very friendly and helped out whenever reached some dead ends in my responses. Overall good experience and the offer was competitive with good benefits! Whole process was very transparent and quick
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL CTE tables for more complex queries which require multiple layers of filtering
I applied online. I interviewed at Verizon (Cary, NC) in May 2021
Interview
I was not offered the position. I was ghosted by the recruiter and data science team. Generally unprofessional conduct.
The overall interview process was broken up into an initial 30min phone screening, and 3 1-hour video conference interviews.
The video conferencing interviews required that I be on video but the interviewers did not have their camera on.
The technical questions were not difficult. Standard data modeling, SQL, and business questions were posed.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
What is the difference between unsupervised and supervised learning?
A company is netting a loss of revenue for the past 12 months. You have the following transaction data: Loc, Date, Total Spent for the past 12 months. How would you approach this question to stem their revenue loss?
I applied online. I interviewed at Verizon (Lake Mary, FL) in Mar 2021
Interview
First, I had a phone interview with a very nice internal recruiter. He told me all about the position details (different than the advertised description-actually more suited to my experience), asked me to describe my experience, and told me all about his experience working at the company. He made me give my target salary, I told him I wasn't sure because it depended on benefits - he actually looked at his paycheck details to tell me what he paid for insurance (so I had to tell him a salary range). After talking to him, I was really excited about possibly working at Verizon.
Next, I was invited to a half-day series of Zoom interviews with 3 Senior Managers, a Director, and two Data Scientists (peers). The first senior manager informed me that the hiring manager/focus of the job might have changed but she wasn't sure. Asked me some questions, I asked some questions. She was not dressed professionally at all but was nice. The second senior manager informed me that he was now the hiring manager and we talked about the job and my experience.
Now, the third senior manager is where things went downhill. He obviously did not want to be there. He never smiled, was looking at his second monitor typing the entire time, and was obviously not listening because he would ask me a follow up question for literally the last sentence I had just said. He asked every single generic STAR interview question he could. By then end, I didn't have much to ask since I'd asked the recruiter and then the other two people a bunch of questions - but I did ask him something.
After I finished the interview, I saw that I got a zoom cancellation email for my meeting with the Director. I asked the recruiter to make sure it was really canceled, and she informed me that Senior Manager #3 had told her to cancel it WHILE I WAS MEETING WITH HIM.
I finally talked to the two Data Scientists. They were really nice but it seemed like they were business analysts and not Data Scientists. They had a lot less experience than I did.
About 3 weeks later, I got an automated email saying that I didn't get the job and they went with another candidate, but the job is still posted 6 weeks after my interview. I would not have accepted the job had it been offered because it would have meant working with Senior Manager #3.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Look up all the STAR interview questions. That's pretty much what they asked.