erinakinci

I continue to agree that it doesn't sound like this was a good experience. I think you'd find that our data science interview process is actually substantially different today and changes many of the things that felt frustrating to you when you went through it a few years ago, including an increased focus on discussing past experience. Thank you again for your candid feedback.

I appreciate your honest feedback here! I’m currently the hiring manager for this position, and I agree that this doesn’t sound like a good experience. I disagree that a take-home assignment is inherently a bad idea - I actually have found a lot of value in seeing the work people produce there and feel it’s the part of the interview that’s closest to what the team actually does day-to-day - but I also don’t want candidates to feel like their efforts are being graded in a way that’s unfair or lacks transparency. Because of that, in the time since you interviewed, we’ve updated the rubric to be less subjective and better set up to reward the diverse ways someone could show data science skill, updated the text of the assignment to more clearly indicate what we’ll be evaluating, and made it standard practice to share with candidates right away where they did well and where they lost points. If I'm reading your concerns correctly, I think those changes are likely to address many of them.