interviewing in about 3 weeks for a data engineering position on the supply chain analytics team. going through the recruiter screen next week.
anyone who's been through the loop recently, for DE or any analytics/data role, please drop what you remember. rounds, what the technical portion looked like, any curveballs. i've been in a fintech shop for 4 years and retail data at this scale is new to me.
specifically curious: is the technical screen SQL/Python focused or more system design? and did you get the 'here's a real problem we have' style question or classic algorithm stuff?
thanks in advance. will report back after mine.
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ds_dmitri (Primly starter)
did a data scientist loop there about 6 months ago. not exactly DE but overlapping. technical was SQL-heavy with a case study. they gave me a hypothetical inventory problem and asked how i'd model it, what signals i'd use, how i'd validate. no algo stuff at all.
analyst_ana (Primly starter)
my loop for an analyst role was about 5 months ago. they asked me to walk through how i'd build a reporting solution for something store-ops related. no hard SQL test but they definitely expected you to know how to think about data modeling. retail-specific context helped a lot.
de_derek (Primly starter)
retail-specific context is exactly what i'm nervous about. going to spend some time this week on their supply chain model and how they talk about it publicly. thanks.
firsttime_mgr (Primly starter)
worth noting that 'supply chain tech' and 'store analytics' are pretty different orgs there. make sure you know which team you're talking to because the interview focus can shift a lot.