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Technical Interview: First I had to install some archaic screen sharing program, and grant it all sorts of permissions for my computer, Then they had me clone a repo (rentables). The application didn't run because the dependencies were outdated and it ran on a version of ruby that was nearing end of life. I was able to update the dependencies, and install the correct ruby version.. however, at this point, we had spent a lot of time on getting set up, and friendly questions about the weather etc. The problems were essentially fairly trivial rails challenges. Make sure some minitest test cases pass related to date math. As presented, under pressure, and while being interrupted as I attempted to explain my reasoning, also without the ability to look up the specific query syntax etc, this proved to be a difficult and frustrating experience. Had this been a take home challenge more akin to normal working conditions, I think it would have been very easy to complete.
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Sr. Software Engineer

Interviewed at Inventables

4.1★
Apr 10, 2021

Technical Interview: First I had to install some archaic screen sharing program, and grant it all sorts of permissions for my computer, Then they had me clone a repo (rentables). The application didn't run because the dependencies were outdated and it ran on a version of ruby that was nearing end of life. I was able to update the dependencies, and install the correct ruby version.. however, at this point, we had spent a lot of time on getting set up, and friendly questions about the weather etc. The problems were essentially fairly trivial rails challenges. Make sure some minitest test cases pass related to date math. As presented, under pressure, and while being interrupted as I attempted to explain my reasoning, also without the ability to look up the specific query syntax etc, this proved to be a difficult and frustrating experience. Had this been a take home challenge more akin to normal working conditions, I think it would have been very easy to complete.

Their interviews were standard, they gave me a 2 take-home test, one code-based machine learning problem, and the 2nd one was about the approach for a specific Machine Learning problem that I needed to present to a peer Sr. data scientist.
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Sr. Data Scientist

Interviewed at Splice Machine

4.4★
Sep 5, 2021

Their interviews were standard, they gave me a 2 take-home test, one code-based machine learning problem, and the 2nd one was about the approach for a specific Machine Learning problem that I needed to present to a peer Sr. data scientist.

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