I applied online. I interviewed at First American Financial Corporation
Interview
Phone screen about three months ago. Even with a follow up email, they still have not kept me up to date with the hiring process. Data science department there is new so they don't really know what they are doing.
The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at First American Financial Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
Interview
Interviewed by 3 team members at once, asked series of questions, technical and behavioural together. They did so to shortcut the process, and returned to in a week or so.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your PhD thesis, which quantitative methods you have used and why, tell me how did you decided to use regression analysis? Talk to me about your favorite ML model and why would you choose it and what are the downsides? How would you evaluate the performance of Decision Tree model? Fore decision tree model what r square score is good ( it doesnt have r square).
First American Financial Corporation interviews FAQs
Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at First American Financial Corporation with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 8 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at First American Financial Corporation overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at First American Financial Corporation as a Data Scientist according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Drug test: 20%
Group panel interview: 20%
Background check: 20%
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