I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Public Storage in Mar 2024
Interview
First round is a hiring manager round. Initially the HM seemed nice and spoke in detail about the role and asked relevant details about my prior experience. Then, he sends a take-home assignment which is extremely ambiguous and requires data collection, data preprocessing and ML algorithm formulation. I spend close to 5 days non-stop working on the take-home assignment only for Public Storage to send back a reply.
saying your application has been cancelled.
To potential candidates, please do not join/entertain this company unless you want to do free labor for incompetent people who don't care a cent about the hard work you keep in the take-home. If you get a callback, please be firm in rejecting a take-home assessment unless you get a confirmation that your take-home will be assessed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. Given a list of self-storage locations along with their metadata and their completion dates across the United States, how would you identify potential areas for investment/disinvestment?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Public Storage in Jan 2024
Interview
I applied online and got an interview with the team lead. He is a very professional and friendly person. Although it was the first round of the interview, he didn't ask any BQ/salary/why company, and only asked questions closely related to your resume. The team seems to prefer to hire Phd.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of deep-dive questions about your resume. What kind of data you used? How do you deal with certain problems? Did you do any feature engineering work? Did you work with categorical data? What was your biggest challenge in the project?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Public Storage (Glendale, CA) in Jan 2023
Interview
They are PHISHING YOUR IDEAS. They do not need new data scientists. They are overstaffed and look for novel solutions rather than employees. They give you a take-home data challenge. They tell you to finish in 48 hours (over your weekend). However, they "allow" you to take more time so you can prepare a better solution for them. I pulled multiple external data sources, explored and evaluated a few modeling approaches, built multiple machine learning models, and came up with detailed investment recommendations. I received a rejection email a month later. No feedback. The job posting is still there. Don't waste your time. Don't feed them your ideas for free. They will just take your code, utilize your findings and keep phishing from other candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take-home data challenge. Pull data from public sources, build a model, come up with recommendations for investments. It's only phishing. Avoid!
