Hopper interview questions

As few other reviewers mention here, Hopper is looking for free consulting from Data Scientists and they have no intention of hiring them. I first met an HR person for a screening interview and I was given a take-home assignment of their real problems and case studies that I'd like to believe that I did exceptionally well. I then met with the Lead Data Scientist to do a walkthrough of the assignment and I thought the call went really well as he was very impressed with the ideas that I had presented. But I then got a rejection email soon after, so I can certainly say with 95% confidence that Hopper is not looking into hiring Data Scientists but they're looking to getting free consulting from the candidates for their organizational DS problems and case studies. Don't waste your time giving these interviews, my only regret is I wasted a lot of time and put in a tremendous effort for the take-home assignment. The company laid off 45% of its workforce during the pandemic, so one really cannot expect the company to be ethical!

Hopper got my resume through a contact I had, thinking I could fit the position. first interview with a recruiter person who spent more time talking about the company than my background, yawning all the time at 10:00 AM. He emailed me back for the next interview. The only info I had was "Make sure to use a computer as you’ll be required to screen-share during the coding segment." Two day later I had the technical interview with a co-founder-head of core-platform and a Sr. SRE. The co-founder said he was busy and will only be listening and closed his camera - never heard of him since. The SRE was in the position for 3 months. The interview was mainly 2 questions: - how would you design a web scraper from ground - a coding test on coderpad with a spoken description of the exercise. So badly explained I had to rephrase twice to ensure I got it right. Beside that, I that, I thought I did OK... 4 Days later I had a one sentence email saying it was over. I'm a 25 year experienced admin/sre/devops, k8s and Service mesh expert, and they had my resume for this kind of position. They never asked me any question around that expertise. Sometimes I feel some companies are hiring just for the sake of showing they exist. I just lost my time there. Stop asking for SRE if you want developers or software architects.