Etsy Data Scientist Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Etsy.
Etsy
Data Scientist
Entry Easy Negative experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Panel
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Case Presentation
Applied online and then received the outreach from HR. 1st round: HR screening, nothing technical, just self-intro, and introduce the role and interview process. 2nd round: share with you a dashboard, and ask you to share insights; some questions on your resume; some easy case questions. 3rd round: technical, very simple SQL and ab testing questions. Final panel interview (I guess it will be 4x30min). HR is very nice, and will call you ahead of time to talk about what panel looks like -- mostly behavior; however they stopped hiring for this role when I was half in the panel interview :(
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Can you explain how to perform A/B testing?
- How would you approach A/B testing?
Etsy
Staff Data Scientist
Staff Average Negative experience No offer 6 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Recruiter call
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral Other
The interview process started with a recruiter call, followed by a 1-hour coding tech screen on HackerRank. Then there was a 2-day virtual onsite with 5 interviews, including 2 ML focused ones, 1 coding, 1 product, and 1 hiring manager interview. After the onsite, I had a 15min chat with the recruiter. The interviewers were nice and the questions seemed fair. The recruiter call before the onsite was helpful for preparation. The virtual onsite felt a bit too long, and the additional coding session wasn't really needed as it was similar to the tech screen. Post-interview communication was really bad.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Recruiter call
- Coding tech screen
- Virtual onsite interviews
Etsy
Data Scientist
Mid Average Positive experience Accept offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Onsite Background check Offer
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Case
It was a great interview process that lasted about 3 weeks. I got contacted by a recruiter the day after I applied, which was awesome. Then came a few interview rounds: first, an HR phone screen where we mostly talked about my background. Next, I spoke with the hiring manager about my experience, did a case study, and took a medium-level technical test. The last step was a full-day onsite interview with four people, which included a case study, technical questions, and behavioral questions to see how I work and interact with others. I was a bit worried because of some Glassdoor reviews, but everyone was really responsive and kept me updated. A cool thing they did was send an Etsy gift card after the onsite if I filled out a survey about the interview experience. It's clear they're serious about hiring and improving things for candidates. The positive and supportive vibe was a big reason I accepted the offer.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Questions about case studies were asked.
- Technical questions were asked.
Etsy Data Scientist Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Etsy interview reports.
“What's the cost function for logistic regression?”
Read reports →“Can you convert Roman numerals to integers?”
Read reports →“What are the signs of data overfitting?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the dropout layer?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the optimization objective for a linear support vector machine?”
Read report →“How could you find trending terms in recent listings where the text is free form and might include stop words or other unhelpful words?”
Read report →“Can you explain how kmeans clustering works?”
Read report →“Could you explain the difference between a left join and an inner join?”
Read report →“Can you explain evaluation metrics for regression?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 21 Etsy interview reports.