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The data challenge is pretty standard, give you a data set and let you build a predictive model and put together some insights. Phone and onsite interviews are all technical interviews. Some statistics (sampling, hypothesis testing, power calculation, etc.), some product sense (whether to launch some features, why some metric changed, etc.), also a CS-like question.
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Asana

4.1
Dec 10, 2018

The data challenge is pretty standard, give you a data set and let you build a predictive model and put together some insights. Phone and onsite interviews are all technical interviews. Some statistics (sampling, hypothesis testing, power calculation, etc.), some product sense (whether to launch some features, why some metric changed, etc.), also a CS-like question.

I was asked about the way I would design the "people you may know" application of LinkedIn and about the way I would group "similar" people and jobs with people etc. More or less it was a discussion about collaborative filtering , classification and prediction models (k-means clustering, bayesian model, decision trees ).
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Analytics Scientist

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
Oct 20, 2009

I was asked about the way I would design the "people you may know" application of LinkedIn and about the way I would group "similar" people and jobs with people etc. More or less it was a discussion about collaborative filtering , classification and prediction models (k-means clustering, bayesian model, decision trees ).

Imagine you have N pieces of rope in a bucket. You reach in and grab one end-piece, then reach in and grab another end-piece, and tie those two together. What is the expected value of the number of loops in the bucket?
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Natera

3.9
May 19, 2015

Imagine you have N pieces of rope in a bucket. You reach in and grab one end-piece, then reach in and grab another end-piece, and tie those two together. What is the expected value of the number of loops in the bucket?

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