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      Senior Data Scientist Interview

      16 Jul 2017
      Anonymous employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2017

      Interview

      Very Smooth and transparent interview experience. Better than FB, Google and LinkedIn, which I also interviewed with. The interview team is very knowledgeable about data science and very nice to talk, very responsible to your question. You can feel respect from them, during the interview process, which is very different from the FLAG companies' people I talked with, some of the FLAG people are very unprofessional and arrogant. Interview take 3-4 weeks from end to end. I applied the position via its website. Got recruitor's phone call within 1 week after my online application. And then schedule a 45mins tech interview with a lead data scientist. The interview questions includes Bayesian probability question, multi variate regression, KPI/metrics design and A/B testing. The interviewer asked questions in very details. After 1 week, got email from HR to schedule a 1 day onsite interview. The onsite interview was from 10am to 4:30pm, with 5 one hour interview and 1 business lunch. The onsite interview includes 2 heavy data science interview, 1 product management/analytics session and 2 general software/data science sessions. All tech interview questions are normal and decent questions related to data science area such as statistics, probability, machine learning, data cleaning and so on, no brain teaser questions. Got email from recruitor to confirm a offer letter 1 week after onsite. The package is decent one, which is comparable with FLAG companies. I accepted the offer immediately, and withdraw my other offers and onsite interviews from Bay Area giant high tech companies.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Bayesian probability question
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      Question 2

      KPI/metric design
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      Question 3

      A/B testing
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      Question 4

      Machine learning methodology screening: decision tree and multi variate regression and PCA
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      Question 5

      Cross validation, K-folder and so on
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      Salesforce response
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      Thank you for taking the time to share your success story and for the positive feedback on our interview experience! Welcome to the #SalesforceOhana! - Ana Recio, SVP of Global Recruiting

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