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Data Scientist Interview

25 Oct 2018

Anonymous interview candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Upwork (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2018

Interview

Very professional and thorough, with a small project to be completed beforehand and present to interviewer. You are given a dataset and are supposed to build a predictive model with whatever tools you wish to work with.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Choice of model for the given dataset, why would you use R over Python or viceversa. Questions about probability theory.

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Data Scientist Interview

7 Feb 2022

Anonymous interview candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Upwork (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2021

Interview

- Call with recruiter - Call with HM - Technical interview with a data scientist. Call was 45min and it lasted 2h where the DS kept on asking DS questions non stop.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Difference between undersampling vs oversampling.

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Thank you for your feedback, we are sorry to read that your experience was not positive. We are taking this feedback back to our team and will use it to inform interview training and the overall recruitment process. - Upwork HR

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