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 QBE overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at QBE as a Data Scientist according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at QBE in Jul 2025
Interview
The process started well with clear updates, good communication, and positive feedback after each stage. I completed all interviews and assessments successfully and was told things were moving toward an offer.
Then, without warning, the process ended because my salary expectation was “over budget.” This figure was clearly stated at the very first application stage. If it was beyond budget, it should have been addressed right away and not after weeks of interviews, take-home work, and document sharing.
Extremely frustrating, unprofessional, and a complete waste of time!
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at QBE in Dec 2020
Interview
Initial call with a data scientist about past experiences and how QBE is structured, not a particularly technical interview. Plenty of opportunity to ask them questions which was good. Was then invited to do a take home data science task where you had to create a model for claim frequencies using a dataset they provide. Did not progress further and was not particularly happy with getting no feedback at all despite making candidates do a take home task like that.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Explain what you did here at company A, and then after you do this you can get follow up questions such as why didn't you try this/that approach.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at QBE (Sydney)
Interview
I applied through recruiter. The first interview was over the phone about 30 minutes long, where they went through my CV. The second interview was at QBE office in Sydney, which was about one hour. In this interview, we went through some of my projects. I explained one project in quite detail. The second part of interview was case-study on linear regression. The case-study was very open-ended and I was asked to use linear regression. I think I did a great job. This was on of my best interviews and I am still surprised I did not progress to the next round!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. For a given problem, how would you choose between random forest and support vector machine?
2. Write down the recursive expression for L-BFGS solver (optimiser)?