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      Data Science Interview

      10 Apr 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Boston, MA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pluralsight (Boston, MA) in Jan 2020

      Interview

      I was first contacted for a short phone screen with a non-expert. Following this interview, I was sent a take-home data science challenge and told to spend less than 5 hours on it. The challenge was difficult but not unreasonable, and took me near the full 5 hours to complete. I submitted the answers in a PDF format, but later learned they were looking for an RMarkdown file, Jupyter notebook, or equivalent. I was then contacted for a second interview, this time with a data scientist, completed over a video call. I was told that this would be to review the data science challenge, but in my case little time was spent on the challenge, and more on general questions about my experience. I was then contacted for a third round of interviews, this time in person with the team I would potentially work with. In this interview, more specific questions about the data science challenge were asked in addition to more general questions.

      Interview questions [6]

      Question 1

      For what purposes might a data scientist use an API?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Explain regularization for linear models and differences between popular regularization methods.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      List some data science libraries you are familiar with and what you have used them for.
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Pick a couple of popular classification methods and explain how they work.
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      We took a brief look at [my most active GitHub repo]. Tell us more about that.
      Answer question

      Question 6

      Have you worked on a team of multiple data scientists before? What skill have you learned from these collaborative experiences?
      Answer question

      Other Data Science interview reviews for Pluralsight

      Data Scientist Interview

      22 Apr 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pluralsight in Apr 2022

      Interview

      HR Screen + Cognitive Test (CCAT) followed by a fairly substantial round of interviews with 8 different employees (in the olden days we called this an on-site, now it's just five hours of zoom meetings over a couple days.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: Explain the differences between SVMs, Logistic regression, and random forests as applied to classification, and the pros and cons of each method.
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      Data Scientist Interview

      14 Feb 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Pluralsight in Jan 2022

      Interview

      Misleading and drawn-out interview process. After hours of interviews and multiple projects to complete on my own time, including an interview initially described as a final round, I have not received any updates from the company.

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      Describe what you're looking for in a role
      Answer question
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      Data Scientist Interview

      18 Jan 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Pluralsight

      Interview

      Series of phone interviews and zoom type video calls. The process was fine, nothing special. They also requested I complete an at home project for them which I didn't really have time for.

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      Question 1

      Describe a data science project you completed and why you made the decisions you did.
      1 Answer

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