Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Upstart en may 2018
Entrevista
Very efficient process. Talk to hr first and then talk to two data scientist individually. The first data scientist interview is interesting. He asked and challenged me about the projects I have done and asked a coding related questions. However, the second interview from a Chinese lazy raised my concern about the work in Upstart. She started with some probability questions which is quite irrelevant to what data scientist is doing. Then she asked a for-loop question, which surprised me since we never use for-loop for large-scaling data-set. It is not reasonable to use for-loop for large data set in terms of efficiency. Overall, the first interview is good and the second one makes me feel bad. Instead of asking brain teaser kind of questions, I hope the interview can be more relevant to what data scientist is actually working on.
El proceso tomó 3 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Upstart (San Diego, CA) en feb 2025
Entrevista
3 rounds, first is lead, then some peers, then hr. Totally very difficulty, since they hope candicator can work for them, no need to train. So if you are a graduate, that's not good place for you, and also very hard to get offer or their company.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Why you chose the major of business analytics instead of some majors of quant
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Upstart en abr 2024
Entrevista
Got ghosted after I was told I'd be a good fit for the position . Recruiter didn't seem like they really wanted to fill the roll its been posted for months.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Upstart (New York, NY) en jun 2022
Entrevista
HR phone interview, where the HR rep was super nice and dug relatively deep into my experience and previous work.
1st round interview with Sr. Research Scientist was just alright. Interviewer showed up 5 mins late (sure if happens, no biggie) and gave a very speedy intro of the company. I gave an intro of my experience. Just 1 question on my experience and moved into coding. While coding it was a bit odd the interviewer kept wanting me to change x or y about the code or how I was solving it before I could finish completely. This threw me off a bit, as every other place I've interviewed they let you finish and then follow up if you could do x or y to improve performance, etc. Fairly straight forward stats and A/B to finish.