Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Paylocity nel mese di apr 2020
Colloquio
1) Brief phone call with recruiter who speaks a mile a minute.
2) Video interview with head of data science - present your background, and a project you worked on end to end. Pretty straightforward.
3) 8 hour take home project, wasted a good chunk of the day. You also have to create a presentation within the 8 hours.
4) Give presentation to a non-data-scientist and a technical member of the team (1 hour). They were nice, but clearly had no impact in the final decision.
5) Present code to chief of data science and another data scientist. They will interrupt as you present and ask questions.
Received rejection call the next week with feedback that was not useful.
Here is the kicker ... the chief of data science recently joined the company in 2019 from Uptake (another Chicago area firm) and has been quietly moving folk from his old team to Paylocity (just check out LinkedIn). It is no surprise that the person who filled this role was also a junior from Uptake.
Takeaway: Don't bother applying to Paylocity for a Data Science role of any kind, they are just poaching people from Uptake.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Paylocity
Colloquio
Submitted an application online and heard back in 10 days. Recruiter was really friendly, we had a quick 30 mins phone screening and he clearly laid out what would happen next. Got invited to the second round with HM, we went over my resume and a project in the public domain, also a small data discussion. They sent the data discussion material beforehand so that you could review, Unfortunately I did not have impressive ML projects in the public side, plus incorrectly answered some statistics question, therefore unable to move forward. If things went well, would have gotten a timed 8-hour assignment and presented to the group. HR was fast and attentive in responding.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
How did you know that your sample size is small? What kind of data preprocessing have you done in this work?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Paylocity nel mese di set 2021
Colloquio
Applied online, received an email from the recruiter for an initial chat in 8 days. He gave me a nice introduction about the company and also got to know my interests. In 3 days he notified me that HM would like to schedule a chat. It was an hour-long technical interview. First 30 mins - walk-through an ML project (ideally in the public space) in detail, next 30 mins - small DS case study discussion. I was given the database schema for the second portion in the scheduling email. HM was attentive, but my ML project (built back in grad school) didn't seem to catch his eyes. If everything went well, the next round would be a full day-long timed take-home assignment (8 hours, once started you have to finish in one setting. It would be a modeling problem and you also need to finish a deck of slides for presentation), then you'll guarantee to have the final panel interview (2 hours) to showcase your analysis. Unfortunately, I did not pass the HM screen. Received the auto rejection email in 2 days. I felt the whole process was super efficient though.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Why did you say the sample size of this dataset is too small?
Done with the phone scree interview. Its been a months since I've heard back from them. The interviewer was not in a good mood while interviewing me Not a good experience, Expected better
