Role interview guide
Data Scientist
SQL, statistics, and case studies carry equal weight; the question bank is still growing, so interview reports are the richer source for now.
Interview process
Stages are ranked by how many reported questions belong to each round. Loops vary by company.
What to prepare
Topics ranked by how often they appear in reported questions.
Common questions
81 questions, weighted toward system design and open-ended technical prompts. Open one for the reference answer.
Learning resources
Recent interview reports
First-hand reports from the community, newest first.
Who is hiring
Ranked by active US Data Scientist openings on our job board: 524 jobs across 166 companies.
Capital One60 openings02
Apple53 openings03
Walmart Global Tech50 openings04
IBM22 openings05
Google20 openings06
Adobe19 openings07
PayPal16 openings08
Zillow8 openingsCompanies with reported questions
Optiver
Square (Block)
Two Sigma
Netflix
Jane Street
NVIDIA
Point72
DoorDash
Meta
Intuit
Temu / Pinduoduo
Tesla
Uber
Zoox
Shopify
Figma
Lyft
Wayfair
Anthropic
Nextdoor
Rippling
Perplexity
Robinhood
Snowflake
DisneyCounts use active company-site openings with a US location whose title matches the data-scientist rule.
What to expect
Timeline, difficulty, common failure points, and what to watch for at the offer stage.