ClearMetal interview questions

A recruiter reached out via email, and we spoke on the phone briefly the following day. I then talked to one of the co-founders on the phone, who gave an overview of the company and the hiring process and asked about my interest, skills, and past experience. Next step was a take-home project, which is pretty standard for Data Science roles. I found the project really interesting and spend about a full day on it. It was actually relevant to the role and the company, and asked a few open ended questions, which I really enjoyed working on. They invited me onsite next, which consisted of 4 back-to-back interviews, each with 2 or 3 people in the room. I ended up being onsite for 3-4 hours. I really enjoyed the entire interview process. I had not heard about the company before, but at every stage I learned more and more and was really impressed by the team, their approach, and the types of problems the DS/engineering team works on. By the end I was very eager to join, and I was glad they extended an offer.

10 minute vague conversation with one of the founders. Given an an extremely time consuming and trivial take home assignment. Then invited to onsite. Extremely creepy atmosphere in the office. Everyone is really quiet and heads down working and theres a doochey stanford fratbro vibe going on. Interviewers are arrogant. They ask you trivial data science questions, even though they don't do real data science here, they clean data. No thanks, dont want to work here