I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GEICO in May 2022
Interview
An interview with the hiring manager followed by a team meetup. The interview with the hiring manager went quite well but she had a very strong ego and attitude. I asked about how many rounds of interviewing for this role, she angrily answered it's up to her to decide whether to approve me for later rounds and abruptly ended the interview. Was very rude interviewer. The rejection email was sent 3 weeks afterwards
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to explain the predictions of a certain model?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at GEICO in Oct 2022
Interview
HR was very patient. The whole process was smooth and fast. 4 rounds of interviews in total. The first round was ML+resume; the second was python + SQL + easy algorithm, the third round was real case machine learning models, the last round was with one of the managers and asked resume and one machine learning model.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked many machine learning questions such as decision tree, random forest, KNN, and Kmeans. Must know the detail of each model very well. Deep understanding of your resume, asked many details
Onsite technical screen had SQL and python coding questions. Format was in a double spaced google doc, which is by far the worst possible way to ask these questions. Interviewer didnt seem to understand the problems during the interview leading to confusion. GEICO, like many financial or insurance companies, have really poor interview processes in place for data science. Bottom quartile compensation = bottom quartile talent.
It was a very strenuous and long process which required a lot of time spending through multiple rounds of interviews and take home exam. Many technical questions regarding ML from multiple interviewers.