Phone screen with SWE even though it was for data science. The engineer talked about his experience and kept asking if I had any questions. He asked an easy coding question but explained it very poorly. I had to type what he said onto the screen to clarify. It wasn't just bad English. He defined terms in a contradictory way. The problem was easy but I was a bit jumbled by the bad explanation and kept thinking things were defined in the first way that he mentioned so I made a mistake. He was patient and pointed out the error and then I fixed it. They decided not to move forward. It was annoying since he asked a poor questions and that question had little to do with data science.

Applied online, was contacted after about 2 weeks, invited for a 1-hour phone screening with one of the senior scientists. The interviewer was very friendly, helped break down the problem to smaller steps, gave hints, ...