Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso RTI International (Chicago, IL) nel mese di nov 2025
Colloquio
A recruiter reached out to me for the position about a month after applying. It was an initial phone screen where I was asked about my skills, experiences, and interests for working at RTI. I was also asked to submit a coding sample. Fair enough. I was then informed that I'd hear back soon regarding the next steps.
Nearly a month later, they reached back via email and asked me further questions about my technical skills. It was surprising to me as I reached out to them with several emails regarding an update, only for them to send this email and not answer my other questions in my previous emails. I answered their questions nonetheless and was told I'd hear back soon.
I received another email about 9 days later asking me to complete a coding challenge and to submit by a certain date. This was shocking to me as I already submitted a code sample to them, but now I was requested to complete a take-home assignment. This was also during the holidays, towards the end of the year, mind you. I completed and turned in the assignment and was told I'd hear back soon.
I have yet to hear back from them, and I'm entering month 3 of this interview.
Domande di colloquio [2]
Domanda 1
1. How often do you use SAS/SQL/R/Python on an average workday?
2. Where do you go when you have a programming question?
3. How do you lean new programming skills/continue improving?
4. Talk about your current programming work:
How much of you programming is from scratch vs. copying previous work?
How do you get your work requests (aka specifications)
Do you work mostly individually or in a team (if a team, how is that structured)?
What type of roles do you interact with typically? Do you work mostly with other programmers, analysts, other role, or some combination?
5. What approach to QA and QC do you use?
6. How many years of experience do you have with each of these languages:
SAS
SQL
Python
R
7. Do you have experience working with healthcare data? If so, describe what type and what purpose it was used for.
8. What is the size of the data sets your process?
9. Is there a specific software development lifecycle that you follow?
Below are the required components of your code sample. Note that we would like to see a single, full program or script that incorporates all of the below components as part of a broad programming task. We will need to see successful demonstration of these data manipulation tasks in Python and/or SQL.
1. Reading in data or sets of data in a format other than the programming language’s default file format (e.g., read-in data from Excel or flat text file into Stata)
2. Validating data by performing summaries, frequencies, and/or tabulations
3. Changing the format of data (e.g., converting character date value to the programming language’s date, convert characters/strings to numeric, etc.)
4. Creating and/or calculating new variables from existing variables (e.g., time between two dates)
5. Using conditional logic
6. Merging and appending data
7. Addressing repetitive processes (e.g., loops)
8. Exporting data to a format other than the programming language’s default file format (e.g., data in Stata exported to Excel, CSV, delimited, etc.)