I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Twilio in May 2022
Interview
Don't waste your time here. It was a terrible experience with the recruiting team. Typically you would expect the recruiter to sell you the company and the role. Unfortunately, the recruiter did neither.
The recruiter was unnecessarily hostile during the call. She was unwilling to share the compensation information, and she was also forcing me to give a number. She implied that it would be a waste of her time if I expected "half of million dollars," which was a laughable and unrealistic example.
She was also very condescending about how equity at a particular social media pre-IPO company is worth nothing because it's not public yet. In comparison, the equity at Twilio is actually worth something since they are public, and there isn't a one-year cliff.
She was also unwilling to work with my timeline. Due to her upcoming PTO, she had to send the take-home assignment ASAP, and she expected the deliverable in 5 days. However, I had already mentioned that I would like to receive it later, but she wouldn't work with me.
Fast responses and relevant questions/assessment. Overall interview process was great and an accurate assessment of DS ability. Recruiters responded very quickly after each step as well. Typical interview style as compared to most tech companies
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Twilio
Interview
Similar to other experiences here.
Recruiter sent a dataset and I made it to next round after submitting the take home ppt. I would recommend doing that as a learning experience. Got fairly positive feedback in the interview with hiring manager but they went radio silence for more than a week.
I followed up and the recruiter said they are moving on with someone else. When I asked for feedback, he went radio silence again.
The recruiter first directly scheduled a phone call without asking for availability. The first sign of a negative culture in the company. They do not respect your time.
The next step was a take-home challenge to analyze churn behavior.
It was a monthly dataset of usage of each customer - They wanted to do exploratory analysis, clustering & build a predictive model to find the correlation.
First - when you do such a detailed analysis - it takes a few hours to get to know the dataset - they said it will take only 4 hours to complete the assignment.
Second - you get paid to do so much work if you are working for any company. In my current company, we categorize such project as very high effort & given 1 week time.
I spent 10+ hours doing the assignment - sent a detailed analysis - and got a rejection.
The company has unrealistic expectations from the candidates.
Also, they did not even schedule a hiring manager/ screening interview prior to the take-home - You do not know anything about the team, yet you are expected to spend time doing an assignment for them.
Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Twilio with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Twilio overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Twilio as a Data Scientist according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 22%
One on one interview: 11%
Background check: 11%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
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