This company pays very poorly! £39,000 for a data scientist position based in London where you would be the only data scientist in Europe (the other data scientists are in New Hampshire, USA and India). I work for a charity and make £10,000 more than that. They do provide sponsorship but the low salary wasn’t worth it for me, and they would claw back the sponsorship fees if you quit within 2 years. Submitted application: beginning of September Scheduled 1st round: beginning of October 1st round: call with HR and light ML/stats questions (think along the lines of define sensitivity, precision, etc.) Take home assessment: 48 hours given to complete it. Had to do with reducing customer churn and A/B testing. 2nd round: walkthrough of the assessment with the current data scientists. It was pretty easy since my notebook was thorough and well-explained. 3rd round: interview with the head of engineering. Easy hypothetical questions to see how you would react under pressure. Offer received: beginning of November. I eventually declined it because it didn’t sit well with me that the position paid £39,000 when American colleagues earn MORE THAN twice that amount for the same work I would be doing (not to mention, cost of living in London is comparable to New Hampshire).

Got through three rounds of interviews that too about three months for them to decide not to move forward with my application. First interview was behavioral, second one was with some upper level managers, then interviewed with current data scientist.