I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at KPMG (Irvine, CA) in Apr 2015
Interview
Four and a half or maybe five hour interview with almost every person on the team. They also required applicants to deliver a presentation on some topic related to data science. Though they ask that the presentation be non-technical, they hammer you with difficult questions on the spot and even ask you to write out the answer. For the interview itself, they ask you what you have studied and then proceed to test you on things that you haven't studied. One of the interviewers was extremely rude and didn't even look at me while she asked questions (she was on her phone scrolling through her Twitter). According to the team, the work-life balance is also awful.
After the interview, no one contacted me, not even to tell me I didn't get the job. This was despite emailing about 7 people on the team, twice each.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
List 3 types of unit root tests in addition to the augmented Dickey-Fuller test.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at KPMG (Orange, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
-- Phone Screening (HR + Technical)
-- Onsite interview with 20mins presentation
-- Onsite 3 round one to one conversation
-- Focus on programming skills, Python
-- Focus on Data analytics, ML
-- Problem solving skills
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Select one of ML algorithms that you are most familiar with and describe to the interviewer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at KPMG (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2015
Interview
there was a couple phone interviews and an in person interview. It lasted about 4 hours and included a 20 minute presentation and 3 45-minutes. There was a couple technical tests and a conceptual coding challenge
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you manage your time if you are given 12 weeks to complete a project?