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Candidate-reported interview insights

American Family Insurance Data Scientist interviews, decoded.

Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Data Scientist role at American Family Insurance.

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Interview overview

Difficulty

Easy

Average rounds

2.8

Average duration

~44 days

Difficulty and candidate experience

Interview difficulty

easy40%
average40%
difficult20%

Candidate experience

neutral40%
positive60%

Candidate-reported interview process

They first do a phone screen, then send an email with a take home google cloud project. The final interview is going over the take home project, explaining your work and discussing your experience.

First, I had a chat with the recruiter. After that, I was sent a coding challenge online with three problems. I had two hours to solve them. The next interview was mostly technical data science questions, about 15 of them, covering topics from basic probability to machine learning and neural networks.

It was a pleasant and easy interview process. They asked a lot of questions about past projects and machine learning/deep learning topics. There were 2 rounds of interviews, each lasting about an hour. The interviewers were very friendly and professional, and I had an above-average experience overall.

Common American Family Insurance Data Scientist interview questions

A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.

  1. 1

    What is the difference between Random Forest and Gradient Boosted Trees?

  2. 2

    What computer science skills are important for this role?

  3. 3

    How do you help your teammate in a team project?

  4. 4

    What is overfitting and what are its solutions?

Interview question formats

Technical41.7%
Behavioral33.3%
Coding16.7%
Presentation8.3%

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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of American Family Insurance.