I applied through university. I interviewed at Nationwide (Columbus, OH) in Oct 2020
Interview
I applied online through. I was invited to an interview 2 weeks after that. Mix of behavioral and tech questions with the head of data analytics. They asked me about parallel programming and Git and Python. Then, I was given a take-home project. I had a week to work on it. It was a car accident risk assessment problem based on telematics data, which I did with Python. Then they invited me to the second round interview with 2 people. I was tasked with presenting the take-home project and they asked me some questions about big data analytics with distributed systems like Hadoop. it lasted 1 hour. 3 weeks later I was rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you process a table of data that has 50 million rows?
What problems are inherently serial?
Started with a culture interview with one of the engineers. Spoke generally about my experience and also about the job and his background as well. Technical interview immediately after. Asked to complete questions while the other engineers watched and commented on why I completed things in a certain manner.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the most difficult thing you have worked on?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Nationwide
Interview
1. Manager talk (behavior questions) 2. DS case (prediction from real data) 3. Scientist panel talk (talk about the case with slides) Folks are nice and chill, all from different background
I applied online. I interviewed at Nationwide in Sept 2022
Interview
At first, it was an Initial one hour long interview with hiring manager, HR not involved. The next round, if I had made it there, was going to be a panel interview with more team members.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Several data science technical questions despite the fact they were hiring interns in September, and I was less than a month into my program and didn't know much yet