The interview consists of multiple rounds which is fairly standard in the industry. I do appreciate the fact that they skip recruiter screen. First round is with someone from upper management who is essentially in charge of the team/department that you are applying for. This is a mostly behavioral interview as well as a very light screen to see if you are familiar with data work. Second round is the take home assignment; you get 24 hours to do this but they predict it will take you anywhere between 3-5 hours. For the take home assignment you are required to work with a very dirty dataset and are expected to write a function to answer the prompt question. There are more rounds after this but this is as far as I got. The take home assignment is what makes or breaks your candidacy for the software roles. They do not provide a rubric as to how you will be graded on the assignment. They also do not provide feedback (even though I specifically requested some regardless if I passed or fail) on how you did on the assignment. If you did not pass; all you will get is an email stating: "Unfortunately, we have decided not to proceed with your candidacy for the XYZ role at YipitData. We received many qualified applicants and have decided to move ahead with another candidate who we feel is a better match for this particular position." As you can see this isn't useful at all in gauging your current skillset and what you need to improve on. @Yipitdata I understand you potentially have hundreds of applicants for 1 role and that writing a detailed feedback for every one of their assignments is not very feasible. However if you are going to have your candidates do an assignment (especially a relatively time intensive one); either provide them with a rubric (so they know exactly what is required for a passing score), or give back the assignment they submitted with markups on it from the reviewing engineer.