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      Data Scientist Interview

      8 Feb 2017
      Anonymous employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2017

      Interview

      HR phone screening followed by two technical phone interviews, 60 minutes each. One was stats/ML focused and the other one was coding, which to test candidate's implementation skills rather than algorithm knowledge. After that it was a full day onsite, which consisted of 7 1-1 sessions. For the onsite, the first round was about product. There were not much technical questions there; instead it was more like a introduction that helped you prepare for the rest of intensive interviews. The interviewer provided me a lot of insights about their products and business model, which was very helpful, and I liked it a lot. For the rest of the day, there were 4 technical sessions, where 2 of them were open ended that focused on stats/ML knowledge, 1 was closed ended that was more like a pair programming session, and the other one was coding session which also focused on implementation. I had lunch with someone in another team and our conversion was pretty casual, but he asked many behavior questions so I think this was the purpose of this round. Also I talked to the hiring manager to better understand the team and figure out if we were good fit for each other. As I had some time sensitivity, I told the recruiter to increase the process speed and he did make that happened. I finished all interviews within a week and received an offer the following Monday. The recruiter is very responsible and care. He replied messages quickly which made the process pretty smooth. Everyone I have talked to has deep knowledge in their field and is excited about their work. Overall it was a great experience and I think the team is a good fit so I accepted the offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      find out which feature(s) are important in a black box model
      Answer question
      5

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      Data Scientist Interview

      7 Oct 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm

      Interview

      One phone screen and one on-site technical interview. Phone screen was on feature interpretation of machine learning models. On-site was 5 hours, with technical and theory questions. The technical were really nice because they gave a real data set to play with. This is a key difference from other companies and gave me a sense that they understand what data scientists do. Whiteboarding with data, in my opinion, is just nonsense. You have to see and visualize the data to understand it and what issues you may have with it. The theory questions were fairly standard stats/machine learning questions, though some were tricky. I left the interview with a good impression of the company and with the feeling that they understand the role of data scientists within the company.

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      Question 1

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      14 Dec 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Affirm in Jul 2019

      Interview

      Their recruiter contacted me. We talked over the phone briefly and they scheduled a call with one of the team members. The second call was ok. We spent lots of time convincing each other about our understanding of some ML techniques. After one day, recruiter sent me rejection message.

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      Question 1

      How we can measure the importance of features in regression? and then some special cases.
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      6y
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      Data Scientist Interview

      8 Nov 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm

      Interview

      I had a great recruiter interview. But the second round was really awkward. At first, they missed my call and rescheduled it after 40 minutes of original time has passed. The rescheduled call wasn't very good either. The interviewer shows zero patience and seems to be pretty pissed when I can't answer the question. I was constantly talked over when I was struggling with the questions. Overall it was a disappointment after that great recruiter call
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