J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Skillz (San Francisco, CA) en janv. 2017
Entretien
No agenda provided before the on-site. Upon arriving I was given a laptop and left in a room by myself to complete their SQL challenge using MySQL WorkBench (FYI, there is no WITH clause support in MySQL...). The laptop was then taken away to be "graded" and I waited 15 more minutes before another person walked in to leave me with another laptop to complete their algorithms assessment. The algorithms piece did not include any data, just a coder pad like notebook to mock up a design using any language you'd like. It was not clear to me if they were assessing technical proficiency in Python (the language I mocked up the algorithm in) or assessing algorithmic design through the mocking up psuedo-code. The deliverable was not clear, and not having even a small data file did not help. Each assessment lasted about an hour. After the work was "graded" I was excused early - as I did not meet their requirements for "graded" work.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Given four people's name, rank, number of games, and win-ratio design an 2-player matching algorithm that optimizes based on fairness.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Skillz
Entretien
Applied online and spoke with the recruiter. Then interviewed with the hiring manager.
Hiring manager then set me up for 4hr long assignment on Hacker rank. The Hackerrank assignment is essentially you give them your ideas and code! Even the question is incomplete indicating the in house Data Science quality.
The data science dept is sold out especially if you are experienced - look elsewhere! When they say the assignment is 4hr long, that is enough to indicate their motive.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Video interview followed by Hackrank assignment building a product for them!
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 6 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Skillz en janv. 2021
Entretien
Hiring manager reached out via email and then we setup call. Then spoke to HR about benefits etc.
First interview was 4 hr long hackerrank assessment. A model building exercise, simple and straightforward.
Then the HR scheduled 4 interviews 2 technical 1 with team and 1 with Hiring manager.
1st interview - python assessment!
Gave me a sample data frame, gave a problem statement and asked me to code up some equation. The interviewer was hinting me in the right direction and specifically said me I can google anything I want! That round went well
2nd interview was on discussing data science assessment and open discussion around a hypothetical case study! It was pretty good too
3 days before next interview recruiter called me saying they are not moving ahead and will be cancelling other scheduled calls!
I wasn’t told these were eliminating rounds! Also the recruited said me they wanted someone with strong python skills! I stumbled in the first interview on one simple thing so I chose to google it! In my opinion that was something the interviewer caught up and possibly rejected me stating they need someone strong in python. In my opinion you can’t be ‘open to google’ and reject someone for googling something simple at the same time! Anyway not my loss ! Saved myself two hrs !
Hope you find it helpful
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Questions around fraud analytics, converting list to dictionary keys
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Skillz
Entretien
Recruiter reached out. Had a chat with a recruiter and one manager and was scheduled for an onsite. My feeling is that this one of those companies trying to hire Data Scientists because everyone else is hiring Data Scientists. This should tell you all you need to know
