I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Nextdoor (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Interview wasn’t elaborate and by the time I got to the technical round, it looked like they already hired someone. The technical round was just preprocessing a dataset, answering from basic questions from it using packages like numpy and descriptive statistics. Other than this, no fundamental data science questions were asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is something strange about this dataset. Can you find it?
I applied online. I interviewed at Nextdoor in Dec 2024
Interview
I first had a screening with the recruiter which involved mostly describing my work experience and learning about Nextdoor.
The first interview consisted of Product Analytics and experimentation. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to the next step which would have been technical python/sql.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions involved product experience. Examples of a question could be, how would you investigate a metric dropping X% amount…