I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GroundTruth (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2016
Interview
Steps:
1. Recruiter calls and understand the background, status and all other legal things.
2. If you pass step 1, telephonic interview with Hiring Manager gets scheduled. Very detailed interview and brush up all the concepts of Machine Learning and Mathematics. Focus on the approach one takes
3. If you pass 1 and 2 then, On site Interview. Skype Interview if you are not living in CA. Interviews with 4 different interviewers. Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Big Data Analyst - Data Management and Analytics Director. Awesome interview ever. Awesome questions and awesome people
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GroundTruth (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
I went through a technical phone interview and then the onsite interview. During the onsite interview, I talked to 4 people. The interview covered many aspects, including probability problems, ML algorithms, and coding.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at GroundTruth (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
One HR contacted me by email and scheduled a phone interview. She is very nice and professional, and after a conversation about my background, I was invited to have an onsite interview directly since I had some projects that are related. The interview questions include coding, statistics, machine learning, design and behavior questions. The whole process is well organized and the interviewers are all very nice and share the same passion about their work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build recommendation systems.
projects in resume
Given some dataset, design machine learning algorithms for prediction purpose.
basic statistics
One coding question is about checking if a sequence of inputs is valid.
Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at GroundTruth with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at GroundTruth overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at GroundTruth as a Data Scientist according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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