Deloitte Manager - Data Science interview questions

Round 1 - There’s no information provided whether it’s going to be technical or general. The interview is scheduled for 30 mins but it can last longer. Prepare for anything and everything. If possible try to ask TA about the focus of interview.

I first talked with the recruiter. Then had a 30 minutes meeting with a team member. Then they sent me a take home assessment that had a 3 days window to work on. Then they reviewed my code and agreed to setup a 1.5 hour for me to present my solution and ask me more questions about my solution and background. I didn't get an offer because they said "there were other candidates that were more aligned with the industries that they have clients at". I found this type of interview practice unfair. Allowing candidates to work on a problem for 3 days takes so much of their time and considering this super competitive job market, many candidates might very well spend the entire 3 days coding! Specially that the dataset that they gave us was a music dataset, something that needed extra time to figure out how to read and extract features from. And yet there is no guarantee from Deloitte to meet with them for the next step. Also the candidate now has to spend a lot of time preparing a presentation. I ended up spending total of maybe 20 hours for coding and preparing the presentation, all gone to waste. I have had other "take home assessments" and can say the way that some other companies do it is more fair. One company gave me only 8 hours to work on in, including preparing the presentation. AND, they said I'll be guaranteed to move to the final round, which is 3 interviews, each 45 minutes, by just submitting my solution. I felt much better about this practice because by me spending 8 hours I know they are committed to spend over 2 hours for next steps with me. Also, if I wasn't a good fit because of the industry this is something Deloitte could have filtered me out for before sending me the take home assessment!