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      Data Scientist Interview

      Jan 19, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at CARFAX in Dec 2020

      Interview

      It seemed straightforward. I came from an internship so no coding examples were requested although they would typically. There was a series of interviews: with HR, the manager, and the team I would be working with.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What did you study in graduate school and how will it apply to what we are doing here?
      Answer question

      Other Data Scientist Interview Reviews for CARFAX

      Data Scientist Interview

      May 1, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Detroit, MI
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at CARFAX (Detroit, MI) in Apr 2024

      Interview

      Positive interview experience, albeit quite long (4 hours of interviews). Seems like it would be a good company to work for, everyone was very interested in their work, and had clear understanding of how their roles related to the larger company goal.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe how you would go about preparing a data set before using it to create a model.
      Answer question

      Data Scientist Interview

      Aug 12, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      London, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at CARFAX (London, ON) in Feb 2022

      Interview

      One of the worst interviewers I have ever had in my entire career. My HR call went well and the second call with the hiring manager went well as well. The third call was a technical (coding) call with the hiring manager and another technical employee. I had numerous interviews in my life and I can clearly tell that the technical employee was biased against me from the get go. I can easily tell that he was seeing me a competitor to him and his main goal is to provoke me and spoil the interview. That employee had very little experience with Python and ML as he was working his entire life on other sectors of IT and he recently joined the company and started working with Python/ML. I can easily tell based on his questions that he has very beginner-lower intermediate knowledge. He was very arrogant, full of himself and he talks to me with a bossy tone even though it is an official interview (third round). He kept on interrupting me when I was answering and then he asked me a question in feature selection and I answered it correctly, and then he started going into a rabbit hole trying to make me look like I am a fool. I am pretty confident that my answer was correct (I later checked with a ML expert after the interview and he confirmed my answer). Then he told the hiring manager “You can continue the call” and he dropped from the Zoom call. That is so unprofessional and so disrespectful to hang up and leave the interview in such a manner. This is the first time in my life I witness such level of unprofessionalism. I was very very professional and respectful throughout the entire interview process even when he was provoking me. When this incident happened, I just lost my focus and could barely continue the rest of the interview with the hiring manager. I should have dropped from the call after this disrespectful incident. This is NOT a company you want to work with. The only think I appreciated after this interview is how encouraging and professional my current manager and colleagues are. I would never apply to this TOXIC, DISRESPECTFUL and UNPROFESSIONAL work environment again.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Python, Numpy, Pandas, ML, EDA
      Answer question
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      CARFAX interviews FAQs

      • Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at CARFAX with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at CARFAX overall takes an average of 22 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at CARFAX as a Data Scientist according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  20%

        Group panel interview:  20%

        Phone interview:  20%

        Drug test:  10%

        Presentation:  10%

        Background check:  10%

        Skills test:  10%

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