Interview process was great as far as interviews go! They were transparent and openly answered all my questions. They were thorough and got a good understanding of me as a potential employee. Remote interview process: Recruiter Screen: Validated my resume and talked to me about the role. Very helpful in finding out more. Manager Call (1 hour): Great call to validate my knowledge and for me to ask questions. Asked a few technical questions (e.g. How do you go about analyzing data) and then a few soft skills questions (e.g. tell a time you resolved conflict). Technical Challenge 1 (1 hour): Provided me a dataset and then asked to model a target variable. Required I set up a dev environment which I did in advance. Did a good job assessing processing of data, checking fields, modeling and checking model outputs. Technical Challenge 2 (1 hour); Similar to before but a different dataset. This one focused more on the modeling aspect and how to define a loss function and optimize it. Leadership/Culture Interview (1 hour): Soft skills and getting to know how I work. Great conversation about how they operate and we went long talking about the work. Closing (1 hour): For the offer they went through a presentation talking about the company and the logic around the offer. Another great opportunity to ask questions and learn more. Note: they have an idealistic compensation strategy based on data science they’ve done with the goal of paying everyone fairly within the company. I believe they care a lot about having a system that lifts everyone up not just benefits new hires and job changes (I hope so). Questions I asked them: Q: What is a story that happened in your workplace that wouldn’t happen somewhere else? A: Working across two geographies (US and China) they have opportunities to learn from each other. Specifically told a story about how they had to divide out work for each region and how they’re building the system to work together. Q: How do you think about keeping engineers engaged and the environment work? A: Focus on how engineers can have impact and build meaningful metrics for knowing the impact individual features are having on saving energy. Q: How are failures addressed? A: Have retrospectives around each incident and work on improving the system not blaming individuals. Q: How do you prioritize and tell me about a time you said no to a product request? A: Do regular triaging and prioritization. Know there are constraints and so they work to build a good product and platform over individual customer requests. This was a thorough interview process. They were very transparent about the company and its performance and really seemed to align their actions to their values.

Apply in school's job board and receive invitation a week later. The people who interviewed me is really nice with behavioral questions, although they are technical guys. We had a great time talk about the model that they use in Verdigris, but I guess because of my critical thinking in the behavioral questions I was rejected. They told me the next round would be a take home question and then onsite. Verdigris is a really good company and they have their stuff!