The pace was really fast. It wasn't a loop, they screen people after every round, and I got the result the same day I finished.
The HR was quick, responsible and really supportive, emotionally as well lol. The HR kept reminding me to use different experience stories in the interviews, but my story bank honestly wasn't full enough.
For the first round, the HR call screening, they sent no email explaining anything. I'm someone who is always on do-not-disturb and almost missed the call. When I called back, the interview started right away.
After that:
ML case study. It had both textbook-style questions and practical ones, talking about methods tied to the team's business data and needs, trade-offs, etc.
Live coding on HackerRank. The SQL got harder step by step depending on how I was doing, and then they asked a very simple 2sum.
Then the analytical challenge: I shared my screen, was given a dataset to do anomaly detection on, and had to write code while explaining my thinking. The interviewer seemed to have put the meeting up on a giant screen in a conference room, and my dog kept going wer wer next to me the whole time 😅 I couldn't explain my thinking very well, but I got to a conclusion that looked decent.
The last round was the HM, BQ plus a deep dive into my resume. By this round you usually run into an HM with a research background, and sure enough I fell into the repeated-story trap (even though the HR had already warned me). Because I felt guilty about it, my answers weren't very good and I didn't even finish the STAR structure. The HM kept scraping together more questions to fill the time, and they got harder. Then I got rejected, as expected.
The pace was fast overall. I don't even know how many times I've failed a final round now, my heart is numb.
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