Candidates applying for Senior Data Scientist roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Clipboard overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Clipboard as a Senior Data Scientist according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
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Executive Summary: Do not complete Clipboard's take-home assignment
First round is a case study exercise which involved determining the best price for an uber route based on a hypothetical test you ran.
The next round is a collaboration session talking about the work you did. At least in my case, I wasn't told that I would be presenting any work, so watch out for that! Overall, the conversation went okay and I figured I would proceed after proposing what I thought was a reasonable solution.
After the interview I was soon thereafter denied. I asked for feedback and was not given any. The interviewer replied to my request but just gave me a nothingburger answer.
It's very frustrating when a company asks you to take personal time to prepare work product/code and does not have the courtesy to provide any feedback after the fact. I was told multiple times about this company's "writing-heavy culture" and they will not write me a 2-3 sentence explanation of their decision. In retrospect, this was a complete waste of time, and I'd advise you not to complete the take-home.
TL;DR do not complete Clipboard's take-home assignment.
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Other Senior Data Scientist Interview Reviews for Clipboard
There was an initial probability-based word problem, to be solved purely mathematically without code. After this, there was a very open-ended product case study, with a "working backwards document" as the final deliverable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a working-backwards document to improve [x kpi that is important to the business].
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Clipboard in Sep 2023
Interview
Do not apply. Heed the warning of all the other reviews. First, I was given a taken home which I completed. This was the probability problem as described by others (Not the cab hailing which was previous I guess). After an interview, he asked me to explain my solution to the first take home. He himself could not understand my solution and I am not sure why he is reviewing it. After the interview, he gave me yet another take home. I am not going to do it because it is a current problem they are having. They are simply looking for free consultant advice and I doubt even if you did a stellar job that you'd get hired. They want you to go deep into their 'real' data and find customer problems, find a solution and write a detailed paper. My thinking is, if you want free consultant advice my rate is $250 an hour. Don't fall for this scam (as others have already said and I didn't heed the warning and did the first take home) because they are just looking for free advice. You'd be a fool to do that many take home assessments. The second one is really involved and I would think it would take about 5-10 hours. Again, they are not looking for trivial data solutions but to go "all-in", as I was told. If you were a consultant, you'd probably charge 20k to give them such a solution along with a paper that describes your thinking (which is what they want and you'll get a follow up interview where they ask you questions). This is expertise gouging and should be against the law!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Take home 1 - A probability question that is not too hard. Average 1-2 hours.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Clipboard (New York, NY) in Sep 2023
Interview
Before having any phone call they asked me to solve a math problem as a challenge via email. After sending my solution the ghosted me. I think someone just needed help with their math homework.